On Sunday 04 July 2010 16:44:52 Matthias Johnson wrote: > While Ubuntu is great I feel it tries to mirror OSX and is "weird" for a > lot of people I show.
A lot of people aren't happy about the buttons moving to the left on windows. http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/194 I don't agree with Ubuntu's philosophy in this area either. From reading I gather that the general idea was to standardize the Desktop layout, appearance, and user experience. I get that, but the problem I have is that moving the buttons back to the right seems to be a /hidden/ configuration option: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1058010 ------------- It is a hidden metacity option. Here's how to change it back: 1. open gconf-editor 2. Go to apps->metacity->general 3. change the value of button_layout to menu:minimize,maximize,close ------------- > For windows users I feel mint is a better match, its > based off Ubuntu but has its own look. Its simple things like one panel > set at the bottom, a favorites applications list in the "start" menu which > you customize by rightclicking and add to favorites, a "control panel" > section, the compiz fusion settings manager preinstalled a great way to > wow, adobe flash preinstalled (whether you think it good it beats having > to walk someone unfamiliar through installing through activex and 90% of > people "need" it) Note that at least temporarily Adobe has dropped support for 64-bit Linux after a serious vulnerability in Flash was discovered, so the latest version of 64-bit Flash for Linux that I can find is still vulnerable. The i386 Linux version has been updated. I tried using Gnash as an alternative, but it's painful. I was not able to play YouTube videos in Firefox, but I was in Konqueror -- but only if I copy/pasted a direct URL -- and playing another video required restarting the browser as well as entering in a direct URL. It's rather untenable. Now, in terms of the original thread, I like Gwenview (which has plugins available for extending image manipulation) but for picture viewing I tend to use Geeqie (was named GQview) most often. Gwenview and several other KDE4 apps use Nepomuk and a back-end database to store metadata, but I found that Nepomuk and Stigi indexing greatly slows down file operations. There's a design issue with Nepomuk in that to watch file moves it has to use inotify even for non-indexed directories because of the way inotify works; both the source and destination directories have to be monitored to know what was moved where. This no-win situation is explained within KDE4 Bug#233471: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233471 Turning Nepomuk off helps, but even then I find Geeqie to be much faster. Krita looks promising -- the interface looks very similar to what I remember from Paint Shop Pro v4. [At the moment I'm not able to load it to try it out due to a missing library that's a dependency in the package that's in the Debian experimental branch.] -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC
