Package: gnome-applets Version: 2.12.2-4 Severity: normal Hi,
Better put your thick skin on, as I'm unhappy with a 'feature'... But I'll try to be a bit more polite than some others have been about sort of thing ;-) The new behaviour of the sticky notes applet to no longer allow hiding them by any other means other than the amazingly obscure and unhinted "big desktop button" is certainly as presumptuous as it is surprising. Why remove the perfectly good option of hiding them from the same applet icon that controls their other functions? Or not present an option to hide them from the right click menu or other interface on the note itself? However 'handy' this behaviour might be, it _must_ be configurable FROM THE APPLET (and not via some even more obscure 'easter egg' to be hunted for with a separate registry editor). If my root window is about to become some application's function button, then _I_ want to choose which function of which application it invokes. Because I might prefer 'clicking on my desktop' to instead poll my mail, or pop an xterm, or purge gnome, or initiate some other process that I do far more often than hiding sticky notes. Please guys. I'm all for "user friendly" and simplifying things, and I do appreciate the hard work you put into all of this, but this is stretching the "friendship" a bit far. There aren't even always bits of my 'desktop' showing through to click... How many other apps do this - to make it expected by users (let alone have it hardcoded as the only remaining way to access some function)? And if others were to, how on earth could they co-exist with sticky notes on the same system? Not acting like you own the place would seem to be a fairly important part of any "friendly" interface to a complex system you are not the admin of. This change seems to have crossed that bound unnecessarily. I hope it can be backed off to a convenience option which aliases or supplements the function of a more traditional control -- and the primary option to hide the notes can be put back into some more sensible relationship with the operations that were performed to create or show them. Maybe there is something (else) I missed (I had to go trolling bug reports before I 'discovered' the idea of clicking the root window), but if so, I would hope that also should speak for itself ... ;-) But aside from that, Thanks! Ron -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.70 Debian configuration management sy ii gconf2 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-applets-data 2.12.2-4 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel ii gnome-icon-theme 2.12.1-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-panel 2.12.2-3 launcher and docking facility for ii gstreamer0.8-oss [gstr 0.8.11-6 OSS plugin for GStreamer ii libapm1 3.2.2-5 Library for interacting with APM d ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.5-12.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdbus-1-2 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.60-5 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.12.2-2 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.0-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.12.2-5 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime ii libgstreamer-plugins0. 0.8.11-6 Various GStreamer libraries and li ii libgstreamer0.8-0 0.8.11-3 Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtop2-5 2.12.2-1 Libraries for gtop system monitori ii libgucharmap4 1:1.4.4-3 Unicode browser widget library (sh ii libhal1 0.5.6-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.12.2-3 library for GNOME 2 panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libwnck18 2.12.2-2 Window Navigator Construction Kit ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxklavier10 2.1-0.1 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends: pn gnome-media <none> (no description available) pn gnome-netstatus-applet <none> (no description available) ii gnome-system-monitor 2.12.2-2 Process viewer and system resource ii imagemagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.6 Image manipulation programs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
