One thing is that the xcin seems to fail because it doesn't know the UTF8 version of zh_CN - is there a way to change the language configuration that gets set up when I log in (I use gdm)?
Another thing is that eg. fire-/thunderbird send gibberish to the printer if I try to print a Chinese page. I can work around that by copying text to Openoffic.org, but that's a stupid and unsatifying way. Surely there must be a way to get it to work?
Finally a couple of other wuestions:
Is it possible to tell an application which desktop it should open on when it starts, just like you can set the geometry?
Is it possible to turn the size and position indicators on? I like to arrange my desktop applications so that they open up with my preferred geometry, and it is bloody stupid having to find out what those values are by trial and error.
And why do useful features have to disappear in every new version? Is this just because some primadonna doesn't like them (like eg. the position indicator), or is there a sensible explanation? I feel that Gnome becomes more and more just another MSWindows, and to be quite honest - MS are better at being MS. The reason to use Gnome - for me at least - is not that it's so much like 'Good Ole XP', but that it is not! And one of the things that has always distinguished X in a positive way is the fact that it is so much more configurable and controllable, if you want.
Apart from the fact that useful features are taken away from us, it also means that it becomes much less fun to use. Remember in the beginning - even MS-DOS and then Windows were a lot of fun in the days when there was a lot to fiddle with. Linux still has that, but it is quickly becoming less. My theory is that this is because especially the desktop has been taken over by people with the same mindset as MS - because that's when things start to be dumbed down so it 'looks cool' and all that BS.
/jan
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