On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 04:41 +0000, Duncan wrote: > YMMV on this as I'm a KDE power user and as a result, dislike GNOME's > crippled options with a passion, but I'd suggest checking dbus. It > sounds like the dbus messages aren't getting thru telling the app over > which the mouse is hovering that it's there.
Hey, Duncan, I posted to this list yesterday, but in the fatigue-induced fog in which was operating I probably put in the wrong from address and the email got trashed by the list server. A switch and switch back of window managers, plus a restart of the user account solved the problem - kind of a Linux equivalent of Microsoft's "three R's" technique. I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE. It used to be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff just got abandoned. I've played a little bit with programming for Gnome. The Gobject pseudo-OO framework is an abomination and the API is pretty messy. KDE just uses plain old C++, which is plenty adequate. KDE packages that I've used on my Gnome desktop, notably k3b for CD and music work, is really solid and feature-rich without being overloaded with cruft. I'm really attached to galeon as a browser, but am switching to firefox for web development, which will run on both Gnome and KDE. Maybe it's time to revisit KDE. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | -- [email protected] mailing list
