Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:14:11 -0800 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: end-user whines about 2.10 Message-ID: <16968.26003.523778.706804@roam.psg.com> References: <16968.21444.998017.259626@roam.psg.com> <42485533.6080200@FreeBSD.org>
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>> o i can't seem to find a biff for the panel. inbox monitor >> seems to have disappeared or something, and addtopanel offers >> nothing obvious to replace it. > This is documented in the GNOME 2.10 release notes. I'm now using > mail/mail-notification as a replacement, but it is not as real-time as > the applet used to be. i can start and configure it, but nothing appears in the panel. and with 500 msgs a day, popups i just don't need. >> o the wireless applet seems to have changed to some sort of >> useless flashing pixmap of a screen. where did the signal >> strength meter, an ever so useful device, go? > It's a purple icon next to the flashing monitors. ack. 'cept the signal strength is not really readable, see <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/signal.jpg>; where i can not see how it tells me the strength, according to whoppens when i click it, is 66%. and how to get rid of those silly monitors? also, the preferences/configure option seems not to work, "The interface does not exist," when indeed ath0 does and shows on those lovely flashing monitors. >> o i still have not figured out how to get my own separate >> custom application menu back. see just to the right of the >> main menu foot in >> <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/panel.jpg>; >> for my 2.8 panel section. sorry, i could not figure out how >> to take a screenshot while the hierarchic menu folder was >> open. > I just create custom drawers, and that works fine in GNOME 2.10. maybe if you don't have a complex hierarchy of them and need to label each drawer so you know what you're doing. and they're screen sticky! >> and totem now smacks me when i try to play a vcd, whining >> "OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program." >> when nothing is using sound that i can see. >> # lsof> grep -i dsp >> # lsof /dev/dsp > Check your gstreamer audio settings. uh, against what? and what should they be? current settings are in <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/gstreamer.jpg>. whine whine whine :-) randy
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