On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:30:21 GMT MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Steve Fosdick fozzy@pelvoux.demon.co.uk wrote:
Then I discovered an interesting little problem. On my desktop machine all works correctly, but on my portable some of the items from the menu that pops up from the Gnome foot are missing, mostly those in the
Maybe the portable hasn't run "update-menus" for some reason? See if it helps. Possibly the gnome2 packages aren't including menu scripts yet.
Thanks.
I was pointed to a solution by Gustavo Noronha Silva, the debian guy who did the back port. The cause was left-over junk in the /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders directory and the solution was to remove all files in that directory that were not part of a debian package by running:
dpkg -S /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/*
then removing all those files about which dpkg complains.
I find it far more annoying that control-a's default binding has changed from "start of line" in GTK+ 1.x (same as in bash, emacs, ...) to "select all" in GTK+ 2.0 (not used by other common X programs AFAIK). This makes for a very quick way to nuke the contents of the input window when you just wanted to add a bit at the start of the line. It's fixable via a dot file, but that's an amazingly dumb default. :-/
I saw that Gnome 2 was supposed to have benefited from extensive user interface research. I hope that doesn't mean simply copying windows in many respects because, expensive research or not, there are many features of windows which do not make for a convenient interface. A couple that spring to mind - my pet hates are:
* Word oriented select - where a hand-dragged selection gets extended to a word boundary.
* Text boxes which don't allow the insert point to be positioned with the first click of the mouse but which select the whole text instead.
I have noticed the first of these mis-features somewhere in Gnome 2 though I forget where. I like the feature of gnome-terminal and others to select a whole word by double clicking but that was there in Gnome 1.4 too. If I drag by hand I want the selection to end where I pointed even it is is half a word as the next thing I am likely to do is paste the selection in somewhere and the change the way that word ended.
Steve.