Hello all, for me, the classical ``background'' of my Gnome desktop (some inactive image + a few icons on top of it) is something quite old and not really working well in how I use computers today. In their present form , I don't use desktop icons at all. But I have no idea about better solutions for an ordinary user.
However, what *I* would like to do, is to use the background as a terminal. That would really very much improve the Gnome usability for me (and maybe that's the case of other power users too, I don't know). I keep launching gnome-terminal all the time for every silly thing, that's annoying. And when I have it as a window, it gets in the way while doing other things, so I shut it down again. Only to need to launch it again in a while... What I'd love to have (when I launch Gnome and no app is running) is: the bottom Gnome pannel (with menus, applets and icons), the terminal (maybe with a nice picture) as a background (no icons there), the bottom Gnome pannel with a list of running applications. I was thinking of doing this by a maximized gnome-terminal that will automatically launch itself on startup. However, I have two issues: 1) I can't get rid of the metacity border (and especially the top box) of the window. 2) gnome-terminal gets listed among the running applications on the bottom Gnome pannel. I'd love to make it disappear from there. 3) I would love it to get focus on startup. Please, do you have any ideas how can I solve these three issues? I'm no experienced Gnome user, so excuse me if this sounds too dumb. I could easily launch apps from command line, I could use gnome in the same powerful way as I use the console, no need to use mouse or the not-so-easy-keyboard navigation when I don't want to... i would love that :) Thank you, Hynek Hanke _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
