on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:38:39PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > My problem with numerous GNOME apps (goats comes to mind) is that they > > start the panel. This is one of several extremely annoying GNOME > > behaviors. Any possibility to override? > > Maybe you're having this problem because goats isn't a GNOME app > proper, but a panel applet?
I believe it's an applet, though it doesn't advertise it as same:
Package: goats
Priority: extra
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 293
Maintainer: KiHyeon Seo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.6-1
Description: A sticky-note type program for Gnome
Goats is a yellow post-it note applet for the Gnome desktop.
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It's modelled after Knotes for KDE, and is also similar to
gnome-gnotes. Goats features alarms, autosaving and more..
...though that does suggest maybe I want to look at
gnome-gnotes....which doesn't exist.
Feh!
> Other panel applets have the same (irritating) behaviour, but I've
> never encountered it in any "real" GNOME applications.
It's more than one applet I've encountered that does this. KDE's apps
don't seem to have the same behavior.
> I'm not sure if this is something you can override. Probably not,
> unfortunately. If you're averse to running the panel for screen
> real-estate rather than memory considerations you could create a tiny
> little floating panel that contained only goats... I probably wouldn't
> even if I could, though, it's a pretty sensibilities-offending prospect
> :).
It's not so much the memory (thought that's an issue), it's just a
matter of environment / desktop control. I don't like GNOME. There are
a few apps which are reasonable. I'll use them. Loading the entire
environment for a single goddamned little utility is a joke though.
There's a distinction between integration and interoperability I'd
thought we'd learned in the 1990s.
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