On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Lynn David Newton wrote:
most of the changes are not redhat specific, but gnome2 specific. I dont
know of a single distro (although Im prolly wrong here) that doesnt have
these changes by default.
> Lest I get off on a rant here, let me get to the point
> of this message, which is to seek information.
>
> o I'm using the new GNOME Blue{whatever}, and am
> willing to give it a fair try, since I'll have to
> live with it for a while. I'm more than merely
> disappointed to see that it apparently no longer uses
> sawfish as its window manager. Why not? Whatever the
> beast is that replaces it (and I can't even figure
> out what that is) is wimpy. I particularly hate the
> weak support for keyboard bindings.
The wm you speak badly of is metacity. the reason for the switch (if I
remember correctly) was that sawfish was not gnome2 compatable. That is
changing, however. see gnomedesktop.org. as an aside, metacity does
have a certain number of configurability available. some via
metacity-setup (seperate package of course) and some via gconf.
>
> o Several applets that I formerly used frequently no
> longer exist at all. Significant cases in point:
>
another thing that is different about gnome2 and not necessarily redhat.
>From recollection (sp?) most (if not all) of the applets from gnome1.x
will not work with gnome2. If it hasnt been rewritten for gnome2...sorry
:) However, gnome2.1 seems to be bringing back some functionality in
terms of 'dockable applets' i.e. the gnomeicu one below. The applet (or
docklet as I believe they are now called) needs to be written for it,
though.
> - gnomeicu no longer works at all. Ironically, the
> distro contains an updated version, but evidently
> the shared library used to run it no longer exists,
> i.e., must have been removed from the system. When
> I try to start it from a command line (which I
> don't expect to work, because it's an applet), I
> get this:
>
> $ gnomeicu: error while loading shared libraries: libpanel_applet.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
its looking for gnome1.4 libraries, i believe.
> I need an IRQ client available all day long in my
> daily work, because I telecommute. I suppose I
> could go to licq, but I hate it.
>
xchat still works fine.
> - The wonderful little utility that used to exist for
> making screenshots under GNOME is no longer there.
> There is an adequate but inferior replacement,
> captured, I believe, from KDE. Why did they replace
> that? I want it back. I use it daily. Or used to.
>
I dont have my gnome2 box availabe, but I'd almost be willing to bet
something non-valuable that gnome2 has one of these.....Ill have to wait
till I get home to get the exact name/location.
> - The time and mail notification applet I used to use
> is gone. There's a butt-ugly plain text time and
> date gizmo, but no mail notification program I have
> been able to locate. I could revert to using xbiff
> from years ago, but I certainly don't want to.
>
cant help on the mail one. I always found those annoying. Might be the
same applet problem as mentioned above, though.
David
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--Darth Vader
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