Re: Gnome, gmc comments

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh bitstream net>]

Strangely I didn't see any replies to your message so I'll give you some 
comments.


>First off, after unsuccessfully trying to get gnome-session to work right
>several months ago, I took the time to try again today, and after removing
>the .gnome directory, got it all working on the first try.  I went from a
>mostly window maker environment to a mostly Gnome one, and it looks great!
>A few comments however:


Window resizing is generally either the window manager's responsibility or 
the app's.  In Enlightenment for instance I can right click on the title 
bar and select "Remember | Window Position" and "Remember | Window Size" (I 
don't have it in front of me but it's something like that).  I'm not sure 
if Windowmaker has a similar capability - you might check the mailing list 
archives if they're up.
>gmc
>two options I would _love_ to see are:
>an option to save window size (I like it bigger and hate having to resize
>it every time I open a new gmc window)
>and:


There is a setting in the gnome configuration for choosing toolbar settings 
Text Only/Graphic Only/Text and Graphic.  Also some programs allow you to 
set this in the preferences.  If you have a favorite program that doesn't 
do it I would contact the author and ask about it.
>an option to have textonly/piconly/both for buttons on the toolbar
>
>if it's ok, I would be happy to make these changes though based on how
>toolbars are created in gnome, I wondering how difficult it would be to
>change the text/pic/both on the fly.

AFAIK the pager has a setting that does this.  Click on the "?" to bring up 
the settings - the setting is something like "Show tasks for all desktops".
>gnome-pager
>it would be cool if the gnome-pager had:
>an option to show tasks for all items, not just current window
>an option to have the pager on other side of the task list


Hmmm...I think it should die at logout.  You might try removing the 
windowmaker command from the .rc file that starts gnome-session if it's 
there.  Depending on what version you're on you can either use the Gnome 
Configuration screen to choose a window manager or you can go into gnome 
without a window manager and run the window manager - if you run it once 
Gnome-Session should run it and shut it down automatically each time after 
that.
>gnome session
>it starts my windowmanager (window maker) on startup, but it doesn't kill
>it when I log out of gnome, should it?
>also, with gnome-session + window maker, the windows that appear at
>startup are all in workspace 1, is this a gnome-windowmaker interaction
>problem, or is something missconfigured on my system?
>
>thanks
>-chris