RE: Bug reports for 0.99 RPMs

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

After further investagation, when i shut down X ii see a message on the
screen saying

Imlib Init
(06) proto: unknown protocol request:  0x0000000e


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fox, Kevin M [SMTP:kmfox@bhi010.bhi-erc.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 17, 1998 9:09 AM
> To:	'raster@redhat.com'
> Subject:	RE: Bug reports for 0.99 RPMs
> 
> I just installed 0.99.0-1 rpms and enlightenment works but when ever i run
> a
> gnome program...
> 
> (05) proto: unknown protocol request:  0x0000000e
> Broken pipe
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	raster@redhat.com [SMTP:raster@redhat.com]
> > Sent:	Thursday, December 17, 1998 8:35 AM
> > To:	dmiller@ilogic.com.au
> > Subject:	Re: Bug reports for 0.99 RPMs
> > 
> > On 18 Dec, Damien Miller scribbled:
> > ->  I just installed the 0.99.0-0 RPMs. 
> > ->  
> > ->  Nice work! I especially like the pager applet.
> > ->  
> > ->  Here are the bugs I have found so far:
> > ->  
> > ->  General:
> > ->  
> > ->  - All apps seem slower to update, the refresh logic seems to be less
> > ->  efficient (relative to 0.30).
> > ->  
> > ->  - The pixmap theme is especially slower at refreshes.
> > 
> > what do you expect :) 
> > 
> > ->  Panel:
> > ->  
> > ->  - Sliding the panel is slow (using the RPM version of enlightenment
> as
> > ->  my wm)
> > 
> > thats because the panel is a normal WM client - thus when it slides it
> > involves not just a trip to the Xserver but a trip to X, then a trip
> > for X to the WM then a trip form the WM back to X - then back to the
> > client again to get its synthetic configurenotify event. basically the
> > problme is: the panle does nto slide at X pixels per second, but at X
> > pixels per step - thus a slow machine will slide it slowly, a fast
> > machine will do it quickly. The "optimal" solution is for the panel to
> > time the time between moves and adjust its distance to "slide" each
> > iteration according to how long the last one took.
> > 
> > ->  Mini-commander applet:
> > ->  
> > ->  - Terminals executed from the applet do not display, but consume
> 100%
> > ->  CPU
> > ->  
> > ->  GMC:
> > ->  
> > ->  - GMC displays home directory in right hand pane, but root dir is
> > ->  highlighted in the left hand pane.
> > ->  
> > ->  - No obvious way to close a pane
> > ->  
> > ->  - No right-click menus on directories in tree view
> > ->  
> > ->  - Icons sometimes disappear from right pane. Sometimes accompanied
> by
> > ->  the appearance of a second vertical scrollbar. Switching to details
> > ->  view and back to icon view seems to fix it.
> > ->  
> > ->  Pager applet:
> > ->  
> > ->  - It is hard to see determine the right hand side of the pager
> applet,
> > ->  maybe add a border to it?
> > ->  
> > ->  - When initially started, the pager does not use up the full
> allocated
> > ->  width. This can mess up the panel arrangement.
> > ->  
> > ->  - It is difficult to see the windows on the pager. Maybe make the
> > ->  window color configurable?
> > ->  
> > ->  - Configurable fonts?
> > ->  
> > ->  - It does not appear to honour the "number of row..." and "number of
> > ->  vertical columns..." configuration options.
> > ->  
> > ->  GNOME control center:
> > ->  
> > ->  - The control center does not allocate the required amount of space
> > ->  for the right-hand pane. This causes an ugly resize when changing
> > ->  selection.
> > ->  
> > ->  - The way the control center keeps pages that you have visited is
> very
> > ->  confusing. Maybe it should use a tab-menu and only keep pages which
> > ->  have been modified? or just throw away changes that have not been 
> > ->  comitted (this strikes me as more intuitive)?
> > ->  
> > ->  gnomecard:
> > ->  
> > ->  - gnomecard starts up with a tiny (about 10x60) window. It needs to
> be
> > ->  resized before use.
> > ->  
> > ->  - It hangs upon selection of File->New gnomecard
> > ->  
> > ->  gnome-terminal:
> > ->  
> > ->  - Too much horizontal space is wasted by putting a border next to
> the
> > ->  scrollbar. Can this be made configurable, or deleted?
> > ->  
> > ->  - The scrollbar itself seems a bit too thick (at 1152x864).
> > ->  
> > ->  - The range of characters which will terminat a double-click
> selection
> > ->  should be configurable (like KDE's term or rxvt).
> > ->  
> > ->  enlightenment config applet:
> > ->  
> > ->  - The "Background Definitions" buttons seem to do nothing
> > 
> > shoudl work.
> > 
> > ->  - No way exists to disable pixmap backgounds and use solid colors.
> > 
> > not currently - that is being reworked - or will be soon,
> > 
> > ->  - It seemed to erase my previously saved changes when executed.
> > ->  
> > ->  --
> > ->  | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox
> > ->  | Damien Miller - http://www.ilogic.com.au/~dmiller
> > ->  
> > ->  
> > 
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