On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 08:38, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 02/12/2002 16:33, Jesse Keating typed ... > > Almost all of it. Are you sure you're looking at sawfish, and not Metacity? > > Metacity is the default window manager for Gnome2 now, and one of it's goals > > was simplicity. > > Ah, I'll check. Guess there's no Bluecurve for sawfish? > Someone may have cobbled up a clone theme by now - check your favorite theme site. > Actually, this'd explain why I couldn't run any sawfish command-line > jobbies (comms. pipe not present) ... > Check the list archives for discussion of the current state of the gnome2 version of sawfish. > > > The aim was not to overwhelm the user with tons and tons of > > config options, but rather just a few so that they could concentrate > on work, > > instead of fine tweaking the GUI. > > But .. but .. that's half the fun! > > > What about panel configs? That a limitation of [current] Gnomne 2 > too? Seems a shame to go backwards so far with the new Gnome (e.g., no > cddb-aware cd player). The later Gnome panels even had the cool ability > to be 'transparent' over the backdrop - has that *really* all just been > vanquished to Gnome 1? > I have no problem with CDDB lookups with Gnome CD Player. Go to Extras -> Preferences -> CDDB to check your server settings. Right now, mine says I'm listening to Tombstone Blues from Highway 61 Revisited. Some other bits, like transparent panels, are still being worked on. I believe I just saw something on gnomedesktop.org about code for true transparent panels being tested. > It *is* faster, though - nautilus [sp?] is actually usable now! > > -- > [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature > [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature > ls: .signature: No such file or directory > [neil@fnx ~]# exit -- Michael Knepher <limbo@bluethingy.com> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
