Garnome 0.13 problems

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

Hi,

My configuration:
Compaq 12XL125 laptop: AMD K6-III 533 Mhz, 192 Mb RAM, Mandrake 8.2 + 
Gnome 1.4 and/or Gnome 2 (Garnome)

I finally managed to get Garnome 0.13 working after I could not get it 
running the first time because of "Unable to load unicode character map 
for font Blue Highway..." errors in .xsession-errors.

To overcome this, I removed the /use/share/fonts/ttf/western directory 
from the xfs font path. Just by saying chkfontpath 
--remove=/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western it does not work. Somehow, you 
still get errors from Garnome that it could not load the font Blue 
Highway !!! So, I just moved that 'western' directory to some temporary 
location and got Garnome working.

- Metacity is good. But, Unfortunately, Just as in my Garnome 0.12.2, I 
could not find any configuration (or even a single entry) for Metacity 
in the GConf editor. Moreover, I could not find a way to have more than 
one virtual desktop configured in Metacity and nor in Sawfish....My 
GConf is gone bonkers I guess.

- My keyboard still does not repeat the keys. i.e. if I keep a key 
pressed it does not get repeated but, gets typed just once , that's it !!!

- The laptop Battery applet gets added to the panel and you can see it's 
entry in the GConf editor under the key 
"/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets" but, it doesn't show up. This was 
a problem in Garnome 0.12.2 also. Although, I did see the battery applet 
occasionally once in a while. What was scary was.....once I could not 
see the battery applet and I just tried adding again and again.......and 
once when it did decide to show up......I had a bunch(5-10) of them in 
the panel !!!!!

- The themes don't seem to work now. They were working in Garnome 0.12.2
Gnome Menu-->Desktop Preferences-->Themes  ....broken

- Although, I compiled Garnome 0.13 with the optimization flags: -03 and 
etc ....by uncommenting the compile flags in category.mk in 
'garnome-0.13.0/gnome' source tree. But, it is still as slow as my 
Garnome 0.12.2 which was compile with just: '-02 pipe -g' . I did not 
see any performance gain by the overnight compilation that it took for 
Garnome 0.13

- Where are all the applications that everyone's been talking about 
.....Garnomr has this new multimedia app, it has that new app, etc.....I 
just see the usual ones in the Gnome Menu

- The System monitor with Garnome (both 0.12.2 and 0.13) is sooooo slow. 
The older System monitor is much faster. Why so?

Hope we are able to understand and resolve these issues.

Thanks in advance.
Sandeep