Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:38:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screenshot Message-ID: <slrnd3rgt7.1oo2.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <slrnd3q5g0.27to.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org> <423DB644.9070304@FreeBSD.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-20, Adam Weinberger scribbled these curious markings: > Any chance we could get a shot with your highly customized panel visible? Of course. http://www.coitusmentis.info/ss210-5.png , and http://www.coitusmentis.info/ss210-5-tn.png for the thumbnail. Here's a bit of detail, starting from the bottom left-hand corner of panel land, in case someone wants to reproduce this setup: The GNOME foot is the GNOME main menu: the big one that contains Places, Desktop, etc. Next is the "Hide All Windows" button, then the "Take Screenshot" button (coming in very handy recently :)), then the logout button. Only used in dire circumstances like when upgrading Xorg. The workspace switcher keeps the logout button company, then there's a horizontal window list. You'll notice by this point that the panel doesn't fill the whole bottom of the screen. This is a bit tricky to accomplish with a window list, because it's not immediately obvious. What you need to do is limit the space of the window list applet itself, not the panel. After this is the Notification Area, where Rhythmbox and Gaim store their icons. Next is the clock. Nothing special there, except a few easily-accessible options. Up top is a panel that I recently added from my old setup that I hadn't recreated in the previous shot. There's the Dictionary applet configured to access my own DICT server, then the Quick Lounge applet configured with, in left-to-right order: Gaim, Mozilla (modified to execute mozilla-devel[1]), Anjuta, DevHelp, Glade, gVIM (my own creation), and Rhythmbox. Next is the most interesting feature of the top panel: the drawer. It contains a vertically oriented window list. I have this because I have my Metacity configured to both auto-focus and auto-raise focused windows, and it's sometimes more convenient to access a window list at the top of the screen when my cursor is there than to go down to the bottom and destroy my meticulously-configured window layering. This is especially relevant when I have Anjuta, Glade, and DevHelp running (though usually I have them in their own workspaces). Finishing the panel configuration is a command line for when starting an xterm is just not worth it. I changed the colour scheme from the default black-on-white to a more Unix-like white-on-black. One more thing about this screenshot is something that I actually discovered this morning. Take a look at the Gaim conversation window (and disregard the fact that I said hydrogenated when it should have been pasteurised), and examine the scrollbar. Observant viewers will notice the secondary "Up" button on the scrollbar, above the "Down" button, like as in KDE (at least default KDE, anyway). I found this by looking through the GNOME Configurator (under the System Tools menu). Once you have this open, enable the "Scrollbar has secondary backward stepper" option and you'll have intuitive scrollbars like in KDE. > Thanks a ton for already taking care of file naming and even thumbnail > creation! Of course. I figured that it'd only take me a few moments, so I may as well do it to save you guys a bit of work. [1]: Could the mozilla-devel port possibly also install a .desktop file for the GNOME menu? Best Regards, Christopher Nehren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCPcOnk/lo7zvzJioRAt1rAKCw4Pn+kJiJGuHb7k2BZFiYCekPfwCgq7gQ RNat1ZAs1fdcKI0eOhHU1D0= =jAHu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson If you ask the wrong questions, you get answers like "42" and "God". Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.
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