Re: Gnome 2 questions

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

As an aside, you really should file these kind of things in bugzilla,
or they just get lost.

joey tsai <joeytsai r58h89 res gatech edu> writes:
>     Can I set right click on menu to toggle raise/lower?  In sawfish on
>     Gnome 1, you could have two identically sized windows stacked on top
>     of each other and switch between them by right clicking the title. 
>

You can't.
 
>     Is there a way to hide windows from the task list like you can in
>     Sawfish?

No.

> 
>     When I double click the title to "shade" the window, I get an
>     animation.  How can I disable this animation?

You can't. 

Sounds to me like you would like Sawfish more - you should go ahead
and use it if so. The purpose of Metacity is to be dead simple.  You
shouldn't use it if you are into customization.

> Panel (Window List):
>     In Gnome1, clicking on the the task in the WindowList toggled
>     between minimizing/restoring the window.  Now clicking on the task
>     just switches to the task.  How can I switch this?

This is just a bug, though I can't find it in bugzilla offhand.
     
>     Also when minimizing a window, I get "shrinking into the panel"
>     animation.  I want to disable this, too.  (Does this go in the
>     Metacity section?)

Yes, it's Metacity. No you can't disable it.

>     I use an edge panel, and in Gnome1, I made the WindowList a certain
>     size (the default setting is to enlarge and shrink the panel when
>     tasks come and go).  I'd like to force a size on the WindowList in
>     Gnome2, but doing so made the task buttons really tall.  Is there a
>     way to stop the "auto-fill" of task list buttons?

Sounds like it's just a bug of some kind. Put it in bugzilla against
"libwnck"

> Panel (Workspace Switcher):
>     Is there a way in the WorkspaceSwitcher to have "mini-desktops", or
>     small images of the contents of the windows, rather than just blank
>     squares (some with icons)?

No. there's a one-line change to the code to snapshot the desktop
backgrounds, but no thumbnail feature.

> Panel (General):
>     For some reason, the edge panels seem to be taking up space on the
>     screen, even when they aren't.  For example, I have an edge panel on
>     the top of my screen, on the right corner.  But even though most of
>     the top of the screen is empty, I can't move windows to the very top
>     of my screen, I'm limited to the bottom of the panel (though nothing
>     is there).  However, this seems to affect different windows
>     differently - gkrellm (gnome1 app) or gnome-terminal (gnome2) can't
>     move past the invisible barrier but galeon (gnome1) can.

galeon can move because it's too large to fit entirely within the
panel area, so it's allowed to move enough to get the bottom out from
under the bottom panels.

This is a panel issue, it might consider not setting the strut hint in
that case.

>     Can I put the tabs on the bottom of the window?

No.

>     Do the tabs have to "auto-fill" the width of the window as well?

That's kind of an unfortunate implementation accident. It's a bug but
tricky to fix.

>     I can't seem to switch to the fonts, installed by the debian
>     packages "xfonts-gimpers" or "xfonts-artwiz". I see them in the
>     "Edit Profile" selection, but they won't change the font of the
>     window.  The window gives no error messages. 

Check stderr, you probably have stuff about font encoding.

Havoc