Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:12:19 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Werner Lehmann <elvis69@arcor.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about gnome Message-ID: <1102191139.75259.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <41B21714.4000608@arcor.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:59 +0100, Werner Lehmann wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > since I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 I use the gnome2.6 desktop. I also > checked out gnome2.8 on a diffrent harddisk. > Unfortunately, there is a feature I miss in the newer gnome versions > since gnome2.4: > > with gnome 2.4, video-files (mpeg1) were displayed as thumbnails in > nautilus, showing a frame from within a the video. > When double-clicking the thumbnails, the videos were immediately played > in a window by nautilus itself. The MIME system has completely changed between GNOME 2.4 and 2.8. The nautilus-media component is rarely used anymore except as a thumbnail engine. > > this is not so anymore with gnome2.6 and 2.8. > > Is there a way to reactivate that feature? Not really. It looks like totem is being pushed as the new GNOME multimedia application. You might try checking it out. > > I also heard that gnome2.8 is able to use the new 3d-features offered by > Xorg, like true shadows and transparency. > Is that true? If so, how can I activate those? Those features are not yet in the FreeBSD ports tree (i.e. X.Org 6.8.1). That said, I don't believe GNOME 2.8 can make use of many of the new X extensions out-of-the-box. GNOME 2.10 should be able to, however. Joe > > Thank you very much. > > Regards, > > Werner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBshojb2iPiv4Uz4cRAle2AJ9Lc7zT6A7AELfWpTG5Mk3T3andDwCfTgC0 03Y/NKta+46NDUdIm8SiBQA= =GUlE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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