Hello enlightenment,
thanks to everybody for their hard efforts in developing this amazing
piece of software. Been using E for 10+ years now (I guess). Though,
lately it is making my life a bit more difficult (to say the least) and
I am getting to the point where I seriously considered switching to a
different WM as I cannot get my most basic tasks done any more. So I
decided to join the users discussions and try to slowly get my troubles
mended out. ;-)
I am running the latest (ok, currently dating back to Sunday) git of
pretty much everything on a Debian/sid, and my problems started about
two or three weeks ago, I guess.
One of them is related to window focus. I use sloppy focus and ever so
often it goes astray: I have, e.g., a java application, Pauker, that at
some point emits some kind of "alert", getting the focus. However, the
window is at that time on another virtual desktop and the window my
mouse cursor currently resides in is still having the decorations to
tell me "hey, I have currently the focus". Even moving the mouse between
some windows does not recover the focus (even though the title bars
indicate activated windows as expected). I am forced to switch to the
Pauker application, do something there and only after that I finally
regain control over my focus.
I am experiencing a similar issue sometimes with the "Wicd Network
Manager" GUI window. It seems to have the focus when I hover with the
mouse over it. But then I try to press the connect button and just at
that moment it goes out of focus and the click gets to the underlying
window instead. To fix this I need to switch a bit between virtual
desktops and other windows until I can finally click this nasty connect
button. Very unnerving.
Another point is application icons. Most of my application icons have
disappeared, both in the start menus (that's not so bad) and in the
windows itself (it get's kind of tricky to distinguish between several
minimized applications if all of them are without any kind of icon). The
point is that I cannot make out the system behind which icons are
missing. Some system applications are fine, some are not. Some of my
.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications are fine, some are not.
And it also does not seem to be related to a particular type of image
format. Tried to delete the efreet cache, to no avail. I also tried to
define the application icons again by using the "create icon" function,
but this also does not work, the icon is shown in the configuration
dialog but seems to be discarded I closed this dialog (well, honestly
speaking I cannot remember a time in all those years where the "create
icon" function really reliably worked for me).
Perhaps related to that, most applications have also vanished from
Everything, and I get messages such as "app not found acroread" on the
console. Even though my acroread is still there and happily around.
I think that are my two main points for now: Trouble working at all
because I cannot get to focus the windows I need to be in focus and
trouble identifying them as they do not have any icons.
I complied all e related stuff for a long time now without physics,
without gstreamer and without pulseaudio. But as someone introduced this
--really-nice-new-super-long-configure-option I tried to get at least
physics and gstreamer into efl. But really, I do not need a desktop
environment, just a window manager. I disabled anything related to efm
and could curse any program that creates a ~/Desktop folder. I do not
want this dammed thing. Therefore I also do not understand why I am
forced into compiling fancy stuff like physics simulation or video
playback into my WM. (I am happy using mplayer and and additonal video
libraries I am forced to install are just bloating my system without any
additional benefit to me.) But that's another, more philosophical,
question for now I guess... ;-)
OK, sorry for the long rant, and cheers to everyone,
Florian
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