Gnome 2.16

HotBBQ · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject:

As far as enabling the composite effects for Metacity, is it as simple as removing the --disable-compositor from the ebuild and adding --enable-compositor? (Nevermind drivers, portage overlays, etc) I tried doing this, but the ./configure barfed and suggested that I make sure a few environment variables where set.
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hoschi · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

Don't do it. I bet you will just get a Bluescreen!
The compositor of Metacity and libcm are really buggy.

When will get gtkmm stable?
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Sachankara · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

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Anyone here having trouble reading audio CDs with 2.16?

I get the following from gnome-cd and Sound juicer:

VinzC · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

Hi.

Sorry I didn't read those 20 pages in this thread but I also wondered what Gnome 2.16 has to bring us - I mean really useful - that hasn't been made before. Don't (Gnome dev's) take this as a criticism but I mostly expected, as an example, session language selection from Gnome environment itself and not from GDM; I also language selection for GDM itself. As of now none of these points seem to exist, am I right?

KDE 3.5 has come with these features, which is quite convenient since it allows for launching KDE from GDM. The reverse would have been appreciated.

Too bad... these are the very two features I was really missing to add Gnome to my favorite desktops.

BTW I wonder if Gnome really deserves a minor version change instead of a change in release number (I'd have expected 2.14-r2 instead, for instance). But it's my own opinion.

And don't make me wrong: I like Gnome very much but I simply prefer KDE or whatever else since it still doesn't fulfills my (very basic) requirements like KDE does.
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selig · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

I have noticed one bad thing in Gnome 2.16 - in Gnome 2.14 when an application on a different virtual desktop became active (for example popped up a box for user input etc.), it appeared in the apps switcher area and was blinking. In Gnome 2.16 this function seems to be missing - or is it only disabled somewhere? It was really, really good and I miss it a lot.

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I am using Kdm. I have ]insert

hoschi · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

What can I do against this new and annoying "Beagle-Icon" in the Notification-Area?
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aidy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 915

yeah i dunno how i did it but i think i was messing around in session manager... and now it doesn't appear anymore

selig · Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject:

For anyone having dbus trouble:

Coltie · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

kazik1616 · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

Hi all,
I didn't read previous 20 pages, but I have problem that files eg. .mp3 or .odt are not assiociate with programs and I can't even set them to associate (when I'm trying to do that, nothing happens

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Is it Gnome or metacity problem?
Any sollutions?
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Kaste · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:33 am Post subject:

Well in case you don't know, there is a search within that topic hidden in den search options up on top. You don't neccessarily have to read 20 pages.

Anyway how are you trying to associate them? Rightclick on the file, Properties, Openwith and Add or some other way?
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kazik1616 · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:39 am Post subject:

I tried by right click -> properites -> open with -> add. After selecting application this application doesnt appear in window to select applications.
By open with it works, but I must every time choose it

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UB|K · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject:

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Maybe this will help.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.16-upgrade.xml

Coltie · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject:

timeBandit · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:58 am Post subject:

Howdy all,

I recently upgraded to 2.16 and am generally quite pleased. So far, in several weeks use I've only encountered one intractable problem and could use some help.

I have many URL link objects (bookmarks) created via drag-and-drop from Firefox to desktop folders. This creates .desktop files, mime type application/x-desktop, that have Type=Link and URL=... keys in the file.

Previously, when double-clicked these would open in Firefox. Since the update to 2.16, they work properly for file:// URLs, but if the bookmark is an http:// address Nautilus tries to open the link with Totem. This is aggravating because bookmarks have no "Open With" tab on the Properties dialog to fix the behavior, and of course Totem hasn't a clue how to handle an HTML page.

I've already tried updating the MIME databases:

pacho2 · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Audio CDs

VinzC · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

Other reasons why Gnome wonderfully s... (Ok, I've said that already

)

Support for opening files from SSH (for instance) is very poor. KDE provides FISH:// protocol, which is integrated in any application that runs under KDE. Gnome has no such functionnality and you must either use SAMBA shares or copy files locally...
Ok, there is a nice (new) screensaver, which displays pictures from a given 'Image folder'. Where The F*** can I specifiy that Images folder? Should I install xscreensaver there'd be two screen saver choices in System > Preferences, each with the same title... Go figure...

Simplifying things that much only gets annoying. Really.
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aidy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 915

that's not exactly true, if I open a text file on an ssh server with gedit, it just works, and saving and all that too.

VinzC · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject:

Xake · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject:

Well most GNOME-applications handle SSH pretty well (like totem and gedit) but others does not (like file-roller). Fact is Totem handles files over SSH better then what it seems to do on my local hard drive....