Re: 7.3 gnomehide updated

[Per Kreuger <piak sics se>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Per Kreuger <piak sics se> writes:
>
> > Has anyone got the capplets in the version of sawfish distributed with
> > the hide to work with the new contol-center or libcapplet0?
>
>
> This is screwed up, the problem is that we need not only the capplet
> compat lib but also the old control center binary - which I think
> conflicts with the new one. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do
> about that. Maybe it's simple to deal with.
>  

Running sawfish config without capplet support seems to have been an 
option but barfs in the current build. I'll have a look if I can get 
this to work again. That would avoid the problem until a version of 
Sawfish supporting the new control-center surfaces. The 2.0-pre1 in the 
latest garnome seems to work.

> > Also, the fonts in gnome2 based applications and on the desktop
> > appears _HUGE_. The only (somewhat) usable fonts are the 8 point
> > condenced ones. This is rather annoying.
> >
> > My Xserver has a resoloution of about 124 dp (1540*1024 laptop
> > screen). I can get smaller fonts by explicitly specifying a lower dpi
> > in the Xserver but this seems like kludge...
>
>
> The idea is that a "10 point" font should come out about the same
> physical size on all displays. The rules for this may need a bit of 
> tweaking. (1540x1024 laptop isn't the most common kind of display ;-)

Well, I guess a 1540x1024 laptop isn't exactly standard but 124 dpi can 
be _that_ unusal. In addition the version of gnome-terminal skipped with 
the hide has weird notions about the size if the glyphs in the standard 
fonts (e.g. fixed and courier) that makes a 24 by 80 terminal in 10 
point wider than the screen. Quite unusable...

You mention that the rules might have to tweeked. Could I do that 
myself? Any pointers?

	piak