On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:02:12AM -0500, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome > 2? > > Is this a major irritant or something fairly minor(I don't quite > > understand what you mean)? Do multiple desktops work properly(each > is > > allowed to have its own background and Alt+F[1-4] switches them)? > Any > > other major issues? I have been reticent to upgrade to Gnome 2 since > I > > have seen things to suggest that enlightenment never intends support > > Gnome 2 since e17 is supposed to be a desktop environment so I was > > curious as to your experience. > > when i made the upgrade, i was disappointed to see that e's virtual > desktops didn't work out well with gnome's concept of virtual > desktops. not i was trying *virtual* (same background and all that) > not *multiple* desktops. > > sawfish seemed broken by design too, as i could not arrange desktops > in a 2x3 grid and switch up and down.
Apparently that's not a bug, it's a feature. GNOME 2 is supposed to be greatly simplified, which means a lot of nifty but complicated features got cut. Have a look at the archives for d-d this week to see how pissed off this has made some people (someone wants to fork GNOME 1.4 to keep it alive in Debian). -rob
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