The next major gnome frustration is the pointer change when dragging windows in the workspace-switcher in the gnome panel. For some odd reason, starting with gnome 2.16 and continuing with gnome 2.18, when dragging a window from workspace to workspace, the pointer changes to the complex global pointer used for moving applets around the panel. This results in a BIG block of stuff that obscures most of the workspace switcher. On gnome 2.14 and earlier (SL4.4 uses gnome 2.8), the pointer remains the standard "north-north-west-arrow" pointer, which is a lot easier to use.
This is not restricted to SL5/Centos/RHEL; it also appears in Ubuntu Edgy (gnome 2.16) and Feisty (gnome 2.18). Both use metacity like SL. I probably need to pester the gnome-panel wncklet maintainer ( Vincent Untz of Grenoble ? ) to get that repaired, unless I want to learn far more about gnome panel programming than any normal mortal needs to know. Suggestions welcome, including how to submit a bug to gnome or how to communicate nicely directly with M. Untz . -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
