GUI Complaints

[Guy Fraser]

Hi

I like the way the new GUI looks, but looks are not everything.

The task list sucks! You get one icon per application, so no dialog boxes show up, nor do any secondary windows.

The mouse scope sucks! You can't set the amount of time to raise a window so if you have the scope set to raise windows automaticly the dialog boxes get lowered immediatly because the dialog box or secondary windows do not pop up under the mouse pointer.

The file manager has weird behavior.
1) When in a directory with images the thumbnails show up, but when you double click the image {bmp,ppm} the stupid thing says it has no image viewer or somthing like that, but "eog" is in the right click menu, and does display the image. If you can render a thumbnail, one would hope you could display the image.

2) The mime/application support sucks! You can not add applications or change the defaults. It would be nice to be able to set the default action, viewer and editor, or make alternate selections to what the defaults are.

3) It would be nice to be able to select gqview {if installed} as an alternate viewer/explorer.

4) When moving or copying graphics it would be nice to see thumnails of the conflicting files, so it is easier to determine if they should be replaced or skiped.

The *sad thing* about these issues is that they were all, except the 4th issue about the file manager but it is in gqview, available before.

Is the window manager still sawfish?

Is there a way I can get the old behaviors back without having to wait for these to be addressed.

Guy