Suggestions and Questions

["Sandeep Khanna" <sandeep khanna villanova edu>]

Hi,

My Current configuration:   Mandrake 8.2 + Gnome 1.4 + IceWM
Currently trying:                Mandrake8.2 + Garnome (Gnome 2) + Sawfish

Been using Garnome on & off over the past 2 weeks. I like it and would 
like to make a few more suggestions.

- The Main Menu (top left) could do with a favourites sub-menu (like in 
Mandrake 8.2). This is a serious value-addition. I generally right click 
on any item from the main menu and click on "Add to Favourites menu" and 
it is added to the Favourites sub-menu. And, I just use the sub-menu 
most of the time as it has just the right applications in it. It's like 
the most-wanted desktop icons except not on the desktop (I like my 
desktop as clean as possible). Also, If we can have another menu-item 
"Properties" for every item in the Applications Menu and sub-menus. This 
is present in Mandrake 8.2 + Gnome 1.4 and tells us about the specific 
link (path, icon, and other details). Also, Tool-tips for all the 
Application Menu and sub-menu items would be a great thing.
In short:
1. Favourites sub-menu
2. Two menu-items in the right click menu of every item in the Main 
Applications menu and sub-menu.
   1. One for adding that particular item to the favourites menu
   2. One for seeing the properties of that particular menu-item

- The keyboard seems to be behaving weird. If you keep a key pressed, 
the character is not repeated !! Like if you want to delete a piece of 
text using the backspace key and you keep the backspace key pressed, it 
will just delete on character and not proceed. It is frustrating to have 
a behaviour like that. Any solution?

- The Sound events was a problem in my Mandrake 8.2 + Gnome 1.4, and I 
thought that this was Mandrake specific problem. But, it doesn't seem to 
be working in Garnome too! Specifically, I can't get the login/startup 
sound, various sound events (Error, informational, etc), various window 
events (minimized, maximized, etc) Any suggestions, help?

- I just realised that this is my first piece of software that I am 
using after compiling right on my machine. This means that it is 
compiled for my specific machine using my machine specific paramenters, 
right? So, Unlike the pre-built RPMs, it should be faster than the other 
RPM installed packages. But, I find my Garnome slower than the already 
installed Gnome 1.4. Why?
Over the past few years I have found out that the Window Manager plays a 
big role in the GUI responsiveness of the Gnome desktop. And, With my 
Gnome 1.4 I use the IceWM window manager which gives me terrific 
performance and GUI responsiveness. As mentioned in the lists, I issued 
a 'kill sawfish' and started IceWM in Garnome. Altough, the Windows did 
have the IceWM specific decoration but, the applications and desktop 
behaved very very weird.

- Is there any way in which I can configure/ fine-tune Sawfish in 
Garnome for having different WM_CLASS windows to open on different 
Workspaces. I have that configured in IceWM. I have 4 dsktops:
General - All Filemanagers, etc open here
Multimedia - XMMS, media players, Xine, sound recorder, etc open here
Development - BlueFish, Forte for Java, etc open here
Internet - Galeon, Mozilla, Gaim, etc open here

- I read it somewhere in the lists or on the Garnome interoduction that 
the configurations presented in the menus are for new-comers and do not 
show all the fine-tuning/specific options. Is that correct? If so, How 
can I see all the fine options (something like Advanced mode). 
Specifically the "While moving Windows use BoxModel OR Solid" , etc.

- The Workspace switcher is a great thing and the facility to drag an 
item from one Workspace into other workspace is cool too. Except that, 
the dragging and dropping feature is a little buggy. If you drag a 
window from one workspace to another, It is still visible in the 
Worskspace switcher in the same original workspace, but, is actually 
transferred to the final/target workspace. Only if you switch to the 
target Workspace, can you see the transferred Window and it then 
vanishes from the Workspace switcher after you have shifted to the 
target Workspace.

Hope this helps in making Garnome a much better desktop.

Thanks in advance,
Sandeep Khanna


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