Re: "No pop up windows"-idea for Gnome 3

[Frej Soya Rasmussen <frej soya gmail com>]

Martin Jeppesen <d2xdt2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
You should probaly reply offlist :), this is getting oftopic
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am wondering, where I should submit ideas for Gnome 3? Is this the place?
There is no gnome3. 
> My first idea is (hopefully) self explaining when looking at the
> difference of the 2 attached
> screenshots, if not I'll write one =)
> 
> The second is a Gnome Lite for thin clients. I study at the Danish
> Technical University with about 12000 students and about 1000 thin
Same :)

> clients. In the summer Holiday they decided to change from Solaris 10
> to Gnome, but when the semester started, it was changed back very
> quicky.

They are running solaris 9, which has no XRender extensions (either disabled, or
not possible in 9)

> I asked the administrators why Gnome was removed, and the answer were,
> that Gnome took up way too much memory and CPU time, and also that
> Gnome worked very poorly over network sockets.
Actually Xorg/X11 always runs over network sockets. Local is just fast :)

First: Ask them for REAL numbers. 

The problem might be that applications runs on seperate machines called app-N
and bach-N and others. (Crack setup, but I don't know the reasoning).
These are running gentoo (ick! so much for stable&tried elsewhere) with gtk-2.8
which uses cairo. AA fonts are enabled (xft2/fontconfig/freetype).

The X11 running on the Sun machines server doesn't have XRender (not enabled or
not possible on Solaris9), performance is basicly crap when using cairo and/or
AA fonts, especially over network because of latency and extra X11 roundtrips
because of AA/cairo. I'm betting AA since they are using the old basic(?) theme.
This is just pure guesswork, but qualified ;).

I've told them before in an email, but they never replied (When they enabled AA
and gvim suffered).

Second, firefox,gimp,eclipse which are installed and present in the fvwm2 uses
gtk. I haven't used the sunrays for ages so I don't know if they run fine, but
if they do so should gnome. Basicly gnome is peo^H^H^H  gnome-panel(start
menu)+nautilus (file browser). 

If I forward apps to my own laptop on the local net they work perfectly fine,
and it's hardly noticable that they run over network. 

Ofcourse it might be that sunrays that are crap, but I've heard otherwise on
this list :)

> So I thought it is a shame that Gnome is not suited for thin clients.
> Could that somehow be reworked in Gnome 3?
> Martin 
> 
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