Bug reports and observations

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

	Hello!  I downloaded gnome .99 when it came out to take a look at
how things are going.  Wow.  Everything looks great.  I can't believe the
improvements made to everything.  Gnome is almost something I would use
everyday now.  I have a few bug reports.

Enligntenment:
	(Works great by the way...  And the whole translucent window moves
are scary.  :^) )
	* If the X server dies before enlightment quits, it segfaults.
	* Warning messages like the lack of the XTest extension shouldn't
stop everything else, and it should have a button 'Don't display this
message again.'  While I could enable XTest, it was REALLY annoying until
I did.
	* If I only have one desktop, why are the desktop switchers
visible?  They don't have any functionality in this mode, and just take up
space.
	* Alt-Tab doesn't switch to the application's virtual screens.
	* The maximize function doesn't seem to recognise things like the
panel. It should avoid the panel.  (KWM does this...  It's the only
interesting feature of that WM.)  This should be configurable, of course.
And when the panel is collapsed, it shouldn't do anything.  Maybe this
should be expanded to any application which is "sticky" and "always on
top"
	* Moving the mouse to the side of the screen should switch virtual
desktops.  
	* Sometimes Ctrl-Arrow switches desktops, and sometimes it just
moves all the applications at once.

Gnome Midnight Commander:
	Whoa...  This seems to be very broken right now.  I haven't been
able to test it much because of this.
	* Double clicking on a desktop icon seems to make that icon grab
focus and not let it go.  I have to restart X.
	* Once an icon is on the desktop, I can't seem to delete it.
	* I should be able to change the appearance of a desktop icon.
	* A trash bin might be nice.
	* The tree view should be able to zero in on a directory and stop
displaying directories further up.  (For example, if I'm working in my
home directory, I probably don't care about /usr or /bin)

Gnome Pager:
	* Why is it using 6Megs of RAM?! (3.1 Megs resident!)  It's nice,
but not THAT nice!
	* I should be able to move applications around with the pager.
Instead I can only move to a new desktop.  This, combined with no edge
scroll in enlightenment means that I can't move windows to a virtual
desktop ABOVE the current one.
	* The pager shoudl have tooltips telling what application is what.
	* The popup task list should be a tear-off window. 
	* I should be able to drag application titles from the window list
to the sticky list.  (And vise-versa.)
	* It's two sizes are a bit annoying.  Large is a little larger
than anything else, and small is tiny.  
	* If the panel starts before the window manager, the pager
complains, doesn't start, and removes itself from the panel configuration.
Very annoying.

Control Center:
	Whoa...  This is VERY nice.
	* Theme switching seems to work only part of the time, and the
default theme often crashes everything.

Menu Editor:
	* When I change the file name of a menu item, I probably want a
new file with the new name.  I don't want the old file moved to the new
name.
	* It seems like only the last item edited actually exists.
(Pressing new, adding application notes and clicking save creates a item
file, but when I repeat the process with a new item, I lose the old one.)
	* I don't see any obvious way to move an item I created into a
different folder.  
	* The .order file often has items I made which don't exist
anymore.
	* If the admin allows, I should be able to make a local copy of
the system menu and be able to use that instead.  (Ie. I should be able to
create a recommended system menu and allow users to change it
individually.)
	* Drag and drop doesn't seem to do anything or be useful.

gnome help:
	* This needs a search function!!  Often I'm interested in a
certain phrase in a man page, so it needs a regular expression search.
	* I should be able to cut and paste text from the help browser.
	* I should be able to jump from section to section, or to collapse
a section.  (I don't remember which man page viewer I saw that in, but it
was a great feature.)
	* I was able to crash it by making the window REALLY small.

gnome libraries:
	If a window is too small to display the menubar or toolbar, it
should do something smarter than just cutting them off.

panel:
	* Swallowing applications is very hard to configure.  I tried to
swallow xload.  I was able to do it on the 4th try, but I couldn't figure
out how to pass options to the application, so it was small and ugly.
	* I should be able to lock the panel so it doesn't add/move/remove
any applications or icons.  Doing this should also remove the [..]
buttons.  
	* The [..] buttons should be replaces by something a little more
direct manipulation anyway.  I should be able to drag things around.
(Maybe I think this becuase the menu editor is so buggy.)


	Well!  Sorry for the long post.  No matter what it sounds like, I
really like this a lot.  It's very pretty and very functional.  With some
improvements to the menu editing code and to the virutal desktop support I
will switch away from AfterStep.  (The panel in afterstep is actually
pretty annoying.)

	Thanks!
						-Ben

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