Re: GNOME1.0 Probable Bugs & Questions

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

> > This is something quirky with GTK+ I believe.  GTK+ often uses the / to
> > mark a folder.  The menu editor isn't picking this up.  Try escaping the /
> > (ie instead of "KDE / KMail" use "KDE \/ KMail").
> 
> Mark? Make?
> 
> If GTK+ is creating a folder ( which seems to be the case when I venture
> into .gnome), then this sounds like a 'bug' with GTK+. Does it strike
> anyone as odd that part of the behaviour of a widget toolkit is to create
> directories? The resulting behaviour on the menu editor ( and other
> applications? ) don't contribute to 'user friendliness' either. Should
> this be flagged as a bug?

When youre using the GtkItemFactory widget to create a menu you feed it a
string.  If you would feed it "Main/Open" to create a menu, it would
create a submenu with the title Main and an object within in it titled
Open.  (It's not quite that easy, but you get the idea).  It works (I
think) the same way with tree's.  The use of the word directory was a bit
misleading.  GNOME creates the directory on it's own.  It's not a GTK+ bug
as far as I can see, the program just needs to make itself aware of people
using the / character in names.

> > As I recall this was a minor foulup in the inst portion of control-center.
> > You're not missing anything though.  The control-center tool to config E
> > is just E-Conf in the CC.  As far as insisting on E, it doesn't.  There is
> > a Window Manager capplet in control-center that you can use to change WMs.
> > GNOME just has E set as the WM in the default session.
> 
> Where is this capplet. I don't see it anywhere. I heard that the
> control-center RPM is messed up. Perhaps this is the reason why I don't
> see it?

As far as I know, e-conf is a capplet but can also run as a standalone
application.  And yes, control-center RPM was screwed up and it didn't
install the file telling control-center about the e-conf capplet.

Marcus Brubaker
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