Re: I don't get gnome 2

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

Rob -

Thanks, these are very helpful observations.

It would be useful if you could extend your efforts a little and try to
help diagnose the font problem, as there seems to be something
relatively unique about your setup (I have not heard reports of this
problem from others.) Understanding the details might help others avoid
the difficulty, and might help us fix it.

Your inability to save session on logout also needs to be diagnosed.
This works for others.

Rolling up your sleeves and contributing seems more appropriate to free
software's implied social contract than blaming, complaining and
waiting.

Cheers,
John

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:01, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> 
> Hi, I have been using Gnome2 since RC1 and don't get it.
> 
> Firstly the much hyped AA fonts.  Where, I select the fonts panel there
> is no option to turn it on, and why is it off by default?  Well, I set
> GDK_USE_XFT and now I know why, half the fonts disappear and the ones
> that are left look worse than a non AA truetype font.  Whats going on
> here?  And why cant the AA thing by turned on using the gconf editor?
> 
> Then there is the any Window Manager you like so long as it's sawfish. 
> I tried changing the values (both current and default) in gconf but
> still only get sawfish, in the end I renamed enlightenment to sawfish,
> but have since changed back as under enlightenment task don't show up on
> the task list.
> 
> Overall I feel like gnome 2 has taken a step back and am seriously
> thinking about reverting to 1.4
> 
> Gnome 2 feels like it needs a few more months work.  settings seem
> confusing and don't work, session control has gone, and saving a session
> on logout seems to do nothing.
> 
> I understand that a lot of work has gone on under the hood to get it
> right, but there was so much talk about that back in the 1.2 days, will
> gnome 3 also be another re-write of the basics?
> 
> I guess I am just disapointed, I like others was really hoping that this
> would be the one I could show others as ready for mainstream...
> 
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