> - 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 IIRC this will be solved in some later version of gnome. Jeff? > > - 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? Hmm weird! It works for me and my config is very similar to yours. (Mandrake 8.2) > > - 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? You need to install the sound-events for gnome. I attached a tarballs you can drop into the garnome-tree. Just do a 'make install' in gnome/gnome-audio. > > - 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? Mandrake compiles its software specifically for the Pentium and uses some of the Pentium specific features. Garnome doesn't do this. But you can turn on all those optimizations as well. It runs very smooth on my laptop. What kind of processor do you have? In case you have a Pentium 3, here are my compiler options : CFLAGS += -O2 -falign-functions=4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -mfancy-math-387 -pipe -march=pentium3 -msse -mfpmath=sse -finline-functions I placed this line in gnome/category.mk. But it will probably also work in gar.conf.mk. You might need to comment some other CFLAGS line in gnome/category.mk. I don't really remember how the original looked like. > 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. Hmm strange. I suggest trying metacity. It has very nice performance as well and isn't so feature-packed as other WM's. > > - 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 Good question! I dunno! > > - 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. Try 'Applications/System tools/Configuration editor' it gives access to the gconf-database. There you will find all the config-options gnome2 software is using. > > - 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 I just tried, but this seems to be fixed in the latest releases. . > > Hope this helps in making Garnome a much better desktop. > Hope this helps in making your experience with Gnome2 more pleasant. -A.
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