Re: gmc bugs

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  First of all, every time it crashes it leaves the ~/.gnome/metadata.lock
>  directory (which can't even be removed without chmoding..) and trying to
>  start gmc without removing it just hangs.. Maybe add pid checking or
>  something?

This certainly needs fixing, but so far there is no obvious way to do
it "right".

>  From the non crashing side: using wheel mouse to scroll window works, but
>  some icons get their file name selected just like when changing the file's
>  name.

I'll look into this.

>  Selecting multiple pics and opening them opens only the last one.

This is a known bug.  I am reorganizing the menu code to make this
work.

>  Dragging file to desktop while pressing alt (wouldn't this be better done
>  with dragging with right mouse button?) opened the menu, I selected link,
>  it opened the same menu again, and after selecting the link again it
>  worked.

Fixed.

>  Would be nice to have the gmc window size saved.. And pressing some letter
>  in gmc window would take it to first file starting with that letter,
>  pressing the letter again would take to next file etc.. I really liked
>  this in windows.

Saving the window size is the job of the session manager.  To go for a
file, you can press C-s and type in the name.  I know this needs some
feedback while you are performing the search :-)

>  And the crashes.. I was getting the all the time when doing anything with
>  desktop (even when dragging icons). Most of them disappeared after removing 
>  ~/.imrc so they were just imlib bugs which didn't like some option I had
>  set? .. Anyway still I get it to crash when changing desktop icon's
>  pixmap, after pressing the last ok button:

Fixed.

Thanks for your reports!

  Federico