Hi all! So, with RH8 I'm finally able to try GNOME 2 without having to mess with tarballs, GARNOMEs and stuff.
I don't know what to think. I love the speed. Nautilus is actually quite usable (i.e. on a killer SMP Athlon box it runs as fast as the excellent file manager DirOpus runs on my Amiga 4000/040 @ 25 MHz ;)), and the integrated archive and RPM management is most welcome. The anti-aliased fonts are mighty purdy as well. OTOH, what happened to configurability? So far I haven't even found a way to edit my damn menus! There's no mention of menu editing in the very sparse docs at all. I must be missing something here, I just don't want to believe that the GNOME and Red Hat teams actually go collectively insane and disallowed menu editing... Is there a way to make Sawfish 2 display anti-aliased fonts? I was severely disappointed with the total lack of configurability of Metacity (and all themes that I've found for it use the idiotic window frame button-layout of Windows, and seemingly without any way to change that). And is there no GUI to switch window managers? Using a terminal to kill Metacity, start Sawfish and then save session settings is not the ideal way to handle things like this in a modern desktop IMO. Another annoying "feature" is that the GTK theme selection affects the appearance of the chosen Metacity theme. Is there a way to disable this behaviour? The window list in the panel also behaves strangely. Configuration windows and requesters don't show up with an entry in the list, and without being able to configure how to raise and lower windows with Metacity it's easy to "lose" windows under other windows, and you'll have to drag windows out of the way to reach them. I also miss a way to configure the number of windows an app can display before grouping occurs in the window list, can this be edited in some config file? How are icons chosen to be displayed with an app's entry in the window list? Lots of apps that have icons in the menu get a default "white paper" icon in the window list, if their windows indeed show up in the list at all... Where do I configure the behaviour of the apparently undocumented "keep root authorization" feature (indicated by a key icon in the panel after running a system configuration app requiring root authentication)? These are some things off the top of my head. All in all, GNOME 2 is fast and pretty out of the box, but it feels HORRIBLY crippled if I'm not content with accepting factory defaults everywhere. I feel more patronised now than when I'm using Windows or MacOS Classic! A little thing like only seeing "Audio Player" in the menu (and not being informed even by a tool tip that this is XMMS) makes me shudder. -- Emanuel Mair ___________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support free hardware choice and save AmigaOS! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk .-. .- -.. .. --- -....- .- -.- - .. ...- .. - .-.- - ...-.-
