Re: Gnome Panel and Gnome 2 migration in sarge; user problems
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Manuel Bilderbeek sent the following message Today:
MB> What is the problem? Are there very little applets available because no
MB> one is porting the old 1.4 applets to 2.x?
MB>
MB> Is this going to be fixed?
MB> Did I find bugs?
MB> Is it a matter of time before new applets will be ported?
MB> Or have I overlooked things?
MB> What about a better way to migrate for the user?
MB> What can you advise me?
I cannot speak to the status of applets being ported - my
experience has also been that there seem to be far fewer. Most of
your issues seem to be related to a fundamental design shift in
Gnome2[1] to remove a lot of the customizations available in
Gnome/GTK1.2 - a decision that a lot of people find pretty
controversial. I initially disagreed with this policy as I missed
a lot of the features and thought of this as "dumbing down" the
UI for non-Linux users, but over time I've become used to the new
look and find it's a clean, functional desktop that I spend more
time using and less time tweaking. I'd still like to see better
theme handling in GTK2 though - I miss my Shiny-Metal.
[1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/
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Chris Caldwell
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Information Systems and Services, The George Washington University
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