Re: [Usability]Attempt at constructive criticism - "Why Gnome 2 sucks for me"

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le mar 27/08/2002 à 12:28, Aleksander Adamowski a écrit :
> * To click an icon with transparency in Nautilus, one has to point the 
> moue at the area that belongs to the shape depicted - not the general 
> bounding box of the icon. Try to aim at that screwdriver icon in gnome 
> control center!

Known bug : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44967
Patches are welcome

> * Gnome 2 has that silly panel at the top - and I couldn't find ANY way 
> to move it to the bottom of the screen! Nor enter its preferences! Nor 
> hide it! Nor turn it into ordinary panel with hiding buttons! This panel 
> is forced down the user's throat. And if there is any way to turn it off 

You can't move this panel type.. You have to remove it and create a
non-menu panel


> And there are some minor annoying visual glitches (filenames say it 
> all), but those are most likely related to the Mandrake distro itself:
> <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/usage/Gnome2.0/Screenshot-Nautilus_HomeFolder_name_clipped.png
Nautilus bug.. But I don't think I'll be able to fix it for Mdk 9.0
(Havoc did a hack to move icons on the right to prevent this kind of
problem, I'll check the patch..)

> <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/usage/Gnome2.0/Screenshot-Polish_diacritical_characters_garbled.png
Bug in metacity schemas files.. Will be fixed in next metacity package
on cooker

> <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/usage/Gnome2.0/Screenshot-Printing_menu_covers_parent_menus_and_blocks_navigation.pn
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Gnome-panel bug.. 

Feel free to fill bugs in bugzilla.gnome.org for the nautilus and
gnome-panel bugs..


-- 
Frederic Crozat
MandrakeSoft