On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 22:25, Michael Knepher wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 09:34, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Right-click on the taskbar (aka window list) "gripper" bar, and select
> preferences. If "Always group windows" is selected, try one of the other
> settings to see if they give you the desired behavior.
>
> > 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.
> >
> There's no gui method to set it, but you can use gconf-editor to change
> the setting: /apps/metacity/general/auto_raise_delay
On a stock g2 there is gconf editor in system tools (called
configuration editor in menus) (prob in either system tools or extras,
system tools)
apps, metacity
> > 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.
> >
do open with, then choose other application and see what choieces you
have in the dialog. If eog is there select it then click modify and
adjust to taste
> > 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.
see above
> > 3) It would be nice to be able to select gqview {if installed} as an alternate
> > viewer/explorer.
> >
if gqview is registered you should be able to do the above
> > 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.
>
> Yeah the interface(s) for setting mime types/preferred apps is pretty
> clumsy and confusing, and doesn't seem to generate desired results.
>
> > Is the window manager still sawfish?
> >
>
> It's now metacity. Sawfish is available on the CDs, but the Gnome2
> version is not stable/complete.
>
> > Is there a way I can get the old behaviors back without having to wait for
> > these to be addressed.
> >
>
> For the window manager issue, if using gconf-editor isn't your thing,
> then you can try running sawfish (directions for switching can be found
> in the psyche-list archives). For the file manager issues, you could try
> running KDE, I suppose, and see if Konqueror handles these issues more
> gracefully.
>
> > Guy
> >
> >
> >
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