On 02/17/2014 10:22 PM, P Purkayastha wrote:
> On 02/18/2014 08:20 AM, Florian Schaefer wrote:
>> 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.
> Latest git has got window focus issues. Stay away from git if you want
> stable software. Most stable is the latest e17 release. I would hold e18
> releases as next in stability.
>
>> 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
> You need to set an icon theme in e. *Any* reasonably complete icon
> theme. Also, either install evas-generic-loaders if you want to use svg
> based icon theme, or set a png based icon theme.

Another possibility for the missing icons is apparently an efreet bug. I 
filled out a phab bug report on this:

https://phab.enlightenment.org/T870

>
>> 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.
> No idea what causes this. Maybe something wrong with your efreet cache
> files? Try removing efreet cache files from ~/.cache.
>
>> environment, just a window manager. I disabled anything related to efm
>> and could curse any program that creates a ~/Desktop folder. I do not
> This can be easily fixed by setting the following your desktop directory
> in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
>
> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.config/Desktop"
>
> e follows freedesktop specs and it will respect the settings there.
>
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