On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:10 +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > > > On theming: I believe the GNOME team felt that supporting theming comes > > with more drawbacks than benefits. The drawbacks are that it introduces > > far more complexity - i.e. things that can possibly go wrong, that then > > get blamed on GNOME - and it detracts from the ability to present a > > carefully considered appearance. Neither Windows nor OS X (nor any > > smartphone OS I'm aware of) provides an official UI and support for > > theming, and there's no great outcry that it should be available on > > those; > > Oh last I checked my WinXP, it had an appearance setting dialog which let > me both select the look of windows and buttons as well as a color > scheme. So I am not sure that no one else provides no themeing support.
yeah, it's been pointed out to me later in the thread that I was wrong on that one. d'oh =) now waiting for someone with a clue to chip in. > > I'd suggest just auto-starting them; if you're going to run them anyway, > > why do it manually? gnome-session-properties lets you do this, though > > it's somewhat deprecated; I believe the intended design is that you > > simply leave the apps you want running, and suspend the system when > > you're done, so you never have to re-launch them because you're not > > restarting. > > Actually, this is what I mostly manually did after booting, I clicked > all the 5 icons to start the apps and left them open most of the time. I > did not know about gnome-session-properties (I know that in gnome2 you > could configure the autostarted apps quite easily in the preferences in > the Session & autostart (?) section, but I couldn't find anything like > that in the new properties. gnome-session-properties *is* the app from GNOME 2. You may need to install some package to get it available, though. Don't know what that would be on Ubuntu. > Is there a way, to have apps be autostarted somehow and be stoved in > some specific "workspace"? That would solve my needs. g-s-p will let you set anything to be autostarted. Making it appear in a specific workspace, I'm not sure if that's possible. (I'd like it to remember I always want Firefox on the right-hand screen, but alas, this seems impossible...) > > > Next, some empathy messages popped up there: my contact 'lwn.net' > > > announced (displayed with a picture of my coworker who I am sure has > > > never heard of LWN) that Fedora 15beta has been released. That picture > > > of my coworker talking about Fedora had me nearly freak out. > > > > Not sure what you're reporting here; the wrong buddy icon is an obvious > > bug (file it) but other than that, empathy messages showing up in the > > notification area is a feature. > > Yes, I was reporting the icon buddy bug, which I will file. But again, > all emptathy messages popping up here, leads to many dissruptions in my > workflow. Everytime, my identi.ca contact finds something interesting, > I have to interrupt my work with emacs now. I am not sure what the > solution to this really would be. I could think of several ways to deal > with this: > > a) be able to configure emphathy which contact messages should lead to > notifications and which not. this seems reasonable to me, or perhaps empathy should default to not treating twitter-type service messages as notification-worthy, since they're not really conversations. But I can't really speak much to this as I don't use empathy or anything like twitter and my workflow for this stuff is somewhat 'different' - I pipe absolutely everything through bitlbee (see http://www.bitlbee.org/img/comic_3.0.png :>) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
