> > It's not the standard but you don't want to have to use bizarre > preferences that are hidden and easy to completely screw up to get a > usable terminal at 800x600. The panel at least is relatively intuitive > to change the size of. where relatively intuitive means - buried 4 menus down if you right-click on the panel? cmon. - its not more intuitive than the default menubar with the "Settings" section on the terminal? > > > one more thing is the new gnome-terminal going to include a "I just want > > to have THIS terminal in THIS font RIGHT now, not for all the new > > terminals, forever" option? That has been a complaint of users (and of > > my own). > > Definitely. I'm pretty sure Havoc will agree here as it seems to be one > of the ideas behind profterm (the terminal program he's writing for > gnome2) yay! > > The tabs are a little less easy to potentially get to by accident though > being hidden down inside a submenu. With galeon, it just sort of jumps > out at you. tabs are off by default in galeon. - thats nitpicky - but galeon has neato-keen bookmarking things that make me think happy thoughts - where mozilla has some god-awful things that make me cringe. this is not a huge deal - but I do think consistence widgets make a difference. And the default mozilla widget is not that close to the raleigh gtk theme. That, unless i'm on crack is the default for a stock login. > > And the hard part is making a desktop that works for both of these tasks > which have two relatively independent sets of needs. imo - it would be nice to have a standard location for all "Default configs" for gnome apps - so that the sysadmin need only munge around in /etc/gnome/appnamehere to set the defaults. this can all happen in their %post of their install, of course :) but A LOT of gnome apps do dark magic in their config and their locations are a mishmash so its SO MUCH FUN to figure out where the defaults are. -sv
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