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Re: GNOME-2 transition: a first complaint



>> "MH" == Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 04:54:30AM -0700, Joseph Carter scribbled:

[...]

> The only thing I am worried about, for one, is the removal of many useful
> configuration options from things like sawfish, or the control-panel...
> Changing a window manager requires messing around with the alternatives
> system, making sawfish not show the window content requires writing Lisp

When you move a window ?

(setq resize-outline-mode 'box 'symbol)
(setq move-outline-mode  'box 'symbol)

> code (which is fine for me, as I know it but I helped some 5 people already
> to make that change...), same as making it wrap the workspace switching... I
> must say that I'm a bit disappointed with this aspect of GNOME2... It used
> to be so wonderfully configurable using the UI.
> My question is - are there any plans to make "advanced" interfaces for those
> control freaks who want to modify their configuration and not always have
> time to read the source or documentation (poor, as in the case of Sawfish)
> to achieve what they could do with GNOME1.4? Gconf For All(tm) would be
> sufficient, I believe :))

All the code has been removed in sawfish for GNOME 1.x and sawfish for
GNOME 2.x

Christian


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