On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 10:50, Ken Witherow wrote: > stated before, viewports are an absolute dependency for me and I simply > chalked the pager problem up as something that was being ported and not > finished until I saw the threads recently regarding viewports. Yes, it is just being intentionally crippled. > Dropping the functionality of viewports was a absolutely huge decision. > While the mailing list did apparently discuss it, I never saw any > public surveys on the main gnome web page, slashdot, linux today, etc > soliciting information from users about what they are actually using, what > should be dropped or added in gnome 2, etc. To me, the decision reeks of > some managerial usability experts (read people who expect everyone to do > everything the same way and if you don't like it, you're doing it wrong > so conform) deciding that what's best for new users is best for power > users simply because the prevailing theory says so. Until gnome 1 style > viewports are returned (the absolute minimum acceptable means is to have > an option to turn it on under settings or at worst, through > gconf-editor), gnome 2 is simply unusable to me and I won't be able to > participate in bug reporting, comments, etc. Two suggestions: 1: [rms roque rms]$ cat >> .sawfishrc (setq viewport-dimensions '(6 . 1) (setq customize-command-classes '(default viewport)) ^D The syntax there is cols . rows 2: If viewports disappear definitely from sawfish, do as I will: rpm -e sawfish2 Many window managers where natuarally selected by others that provided the features most users wanted. The acceptance of sawfish, as I see it, was that you could configure it untill you had it just the way you wanted very easily, and it was easily extensible through the rep lisp engine. I wonder how many more ui problems I will find untill i reach the following sad state: $ rpm -qa | grep gnome $ Hugs, rms ps: I already did rpm -e gnome-terminal -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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