On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 02:02:10AM +1000, Jeff Waugh scribbled: > <quote who="Marek Habersack"> > > > Oh well... :) He sounds a bit bitter and disappointed... Although I don't > > fully agree with what he wrote, I guess there's nothing to do but to > > accept the decision. > > He's just tired... It's *very* hard being the maintainer of a hugely popular > piece of software. He has a new job, and handling the audience that GNOME > has is not really his greatest interest at this point. That's fully understandable... > > > As long as the options are settable anywhere, I'm fine with it :)). > > Which options do you "need" and why? GNOME is not continuing down it's old > path of having fifty million unique preferences and no consensus on sensible > behaviour. As I wrote previously, the options I've been asked about (and it happens that I've been using them myself) were the workspace switching wrap option, the opaque vs. wireframe move/resize options. For me it's just a matter of personal preference - I don't like the visual effect of moving a full window or resizing a full window - but people who asked me have slightly older and slower hardware where the video card simply doesn't do well when a full window is dragged/resized. That's about the only options I'd like to see configurable somewhere. > > Hmm, another question has just popped up in my mind. Looking at the lack > > of the window manager configuration applet in the control panel and > > reading some messages here and there I've gotten the impression that GNOME > > is aiming at tight window manager integration with the desktop (kind of > > the KDE one) - is that true or is it just my (incorrect) impression? > > We're definitely aiming for tight integration (why wouldn't we?) but there's That's ok as long as the integration isn't too tight - as to the point where one cannot switch to a different window manager. > no one standing in the way of (whilst there's plenty of people interested > in) an advanced window manager selection capplet (it would probably end up > in the Preferred Applications capplet). That would be great. Is anybody working on it? If not, I might give it a try (although, so far, I've never written a piece of GNOME-specific code - but that would be a great opportunity to learn) > Most of your questions would be best answered on GNOME's desktop-devel-list, > rather than the Debian package maintainer's list. I guess you're right ;) - it's just that something inside me is against subscribing to yet another voluminous mailing list, haha :)). But I suppose that would be the right way :) TIA, marek
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