Hi TB, On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:07:03PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > The latest gnome (2.12.2 according to Desktop>About GNOME) has, like > all previous "up"grades, disabled my preference for emacs-style > editing in forms, etc. It used to be in the Keyboard Preferences > dialog, but as I have become accustomed to seeing, the latest version > has removed more features, including this one. > > I feel a little like that Star Trek episode where Dr. Crusher keeps > finding that people are vanishing, until she's left in a little bubble > of a universe all by herself. hehe. > > In any case, since the latest gnome has also disabled the help system > (or rather, the most up-to-date manual is the accessibility guide for > 2.8 and the user's guide for 2.6), where has the feature moved to this > week? I am a Gnome user(shutter) and I always thought that 'upgrade' meant getting more goodies(featureitis) but with Gnome the opposite is true. If I was writing a program and someone reduced the api, I'd want a warning so as to know how to workaround or change how I do stuff. If 'upgrades' in Gnome are going to remove something, I think there should be something obvious like a document placed on the desktop saying 'gnome_2.12.2.removed.features' and explaining what was removed and how to work around it based upon the functionality in the last version. Users should also read stuff in /usr/share/doc/ but many users dont as users just expect upgrade more or less to fix stuff, not remove features. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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