Comments on: Five Things I Dislike About Gnome

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:05:40 +0000

I LOLed at title: “gnome-panel musical chairs” is true tho, they need to fix this switching around stuff there. But in general, I would say Gnome is the best desktop environment for linux distros.

By: boteeka

boteeka — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:28:11 +0000

“Even with the ‘lock to panel’ option set, my applets occasionally end up moving around for no discernible reason when I log out and back into Gnome. This isn’t a show stopper, but it is annoying.”

It isn’t a showstopper but it should be. It’s true, things like this doesn’t crash your system or wahetever, so in a strict sense these aren’t showstoppers.

But, on the other hand, why cannot we raise the bar a little on software quality?

Small issues like this are all over the place in Gnome (see 101 papercuts), some of them for ages.

By: GregE

GregE — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:06:58 +0000

@KenP

Right click on the icon, disable wireless, continue using USB broadband.

Same goes for Point 1, right click disable …. <- use the one you want.

Guys, learn how to drive the tool, not let the tool drive you.

By: JanC

JanC — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:48:28 +0000

About #2:
I think this was originally done to avoid performance problems when opening directories with lots of files in them (having to run 2000 files through libmagic could certainly slow down displaying them in nautilus).

About #4:
I think the new GDM doesn’t even support XDMCP…

By: Raysel

Raysel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:46:47 +0000

I agree with number 3.

Whenever I play Diablo 2 (through WINE), after I exit, all the items are pushed together… but the next time I log into Gnome after that, all the items in the panels aren’t just pushed together, but shuffled too! It’s very annoying.

Other than that, I can’t really relate to the others.

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:17:55 +0000

You are brave. A while back I posted a list of my annoyances with Xfce, my preferred environment. All it did was attract flames from intolerant geeks who couldn’t tolerate the fact that someone said it wasn’t perfect.

By: shamil

shamil — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:20:59 +0000

If you want a good kde experience, try out mepis or pclinuxos. Mandriva also does kde right as well as opensuse. Kubuntu use to be good, but no longer. It suffers from a childs neglect.

By: ryanhaigh

ryanhaigh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:24:14 +0000

OpenFred:
Try the nautilus extension nautilus-gksu, its probably not exactly what you are after but at least there is no need to drop to the terminal, you just open a nautilus window as admin.

Other useful nautilus extensions are nautilus-open-terminal (in case you need to do more than create a folder ;p) and nautilus-image-convert (or converter not sure) which allows you to rotate and re-size images easily.

Gnome using extensions is disapointing and last time I tried XDMCP it was broken not just unencrypted, but the other bugs don’t bother me too much as i have my panel hidden (no minimizing anything ever) and /etc/networks/interfaces handles all my wired/wireless needs.

By: KenP

KenP — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:51:17 +0000

I agree with point (1). This gets even weirder in my case where I use my laptop on the train to work and whenever it finds a “stronger” wireless network, it tries to connect to it — effectively disconnecting the mobile broadband connection via the USB key plugged into the laptop!!
Suffice to say here that I can never use it to connect to the office VPN.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:11:51 +0000

I have similar issues with seahorse after changing my password, i have to change my keyring pass to the same value of the login pass, after that it never asked for my keyring pass anymore.

By: Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:15:31 +0000

Carles:

The screensaver issue has recently been understood and fixed.
Turns out its an xserver bug.

http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/

-jef

By: ricegf

ricegf — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:28:23 +0000

@Uh: “Remove the file extension from a jpeg and Gnome will still know it’s a jpeg. Rename it to .txt and Gnome will still know it’s a jpeg.”

Tried just that. Double-clicked Blind_Skier3.png in Nautilus, and it displayed in Eye of Gnome. So far so good.

I changed the filename to Blind_Skier3.txt in Nautilus. Nautilus still showed the image as the icon, but when I double-clicked it, Nautilus launched it in gedit (“cannot detect character coding”).

Changed the name to Blind_Skier3.jpg and double-clicked – Eye of Gnome launched but complained “file is not a JPEG”.

Looks pretty broken to me.