Re: suggestions for gnome

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > Thx you for your mail. i have heard about this key and tryied it out but
> > i hate the effect that the window-content is not displayed when moove
> > it. 
> 
> Well, AFAIK this has already been discussed and the developer's (Havoc 
> Pennington) point of view is that metacity shouldn't be overconfigurable 
> and things should just work for most people, so they don't have to resort 
> to preferences. We did resort to preferences and things still don't work, 
> so obviously the goal hasn't been achieved.

*sigh*  Some more and fine grained options (even GConf only) would be
great, IMHO.


> > Yes, this thing bothers me a lot. (sure many many more)
> > These to seperate things should be seperated in gconf.
> > Let the user decide -- freedom?
> 
> I definitely agree with this. After all, we don't call for some UI for 
> this setting, only for a GConf key.

Sorry, I already deleted most older posts of this thread...

The "no annoying animation for minimizing windows but still display the
contents of a window when moving" thingy?


> If there's positive reaction to this post, I will fill the bug.

Please post the bug number here. (Count this as a positive reaction. ;-)

...guenther


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