On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:52 +0000, Jeffery Small wrote: > I just upgraded from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 on a SPARC system and moved > from Sun's native gnome 2.0 to 2.6 as part of their Java Desktop System. > Here are some issues that I am noticing and I'm curious if there are any > configuration options or work-arounds available to address them. > > * I have a dual screen configuration running two separate desktops. Each > desktop has a panel with a "Show Desktop" button. However, clicking > the button on the second screen causes the contents of the first screen > to disappear. Is this a known issue with a fix? From this bug report, it seems it was fixed in the 2.10 cycle; http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105650 > * On the second desktop, I add a drawer or a launcher to the panel and > bring up the properties menu. When I click on the "Icon" box, the > panels on both desktops disappear momentarily, are then redrawn and > the properties menu disappears. It is impossible to add an icon using > the properties menu. There is no such problem on the original desktop, > only on the second screen. Any know work-around? > > * Is there a way to get rid of the "This Computer", "Documents", "Network > Places" and "Trash" icons from the desktop? Check the gconf keys for /apps/nautilus. You should be able to disable most of these (or disable nautilus drawing the desktop fully), but I'm not sure if it applies to 2.6. > * The in-box monitor in the panel requires a double-click to execute the > underlying mail reader. Is there a way to change this to a single > click? Possibly fixed in 2.6.1, see these bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152220 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143734 > * In what version of gnome were the following features implemented? I > thought I had these capabilities in gnome 2.0, but I may be confusing > it with a later release. I would like to implement them in gnome > 2.6 if possible. > > - When moving a window on the screen, holding down Shift while > dragging the window causes it to "snap" into alignment with > another window or the edge of the screen. This is edge resistance? If so, it looks like this was introduced in metacity 2.13.2. > - When resizing an xterm window, the current size of the window, > in character units, is displayed. From what I can tell from the changelog, this is called resizepopup and should have been available as far back as 2002? As a general rule, you can find out a lot by searching the bug tracker, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ and skimming through the changelogs (online at http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs). Anyway, HTH! -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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