[KLUG Members] Gnome 2.0.1

[John Bridleman]

* adam@morrison-ind.com (adam@morrison-ind.com) wrote:
> >>BTW, since my wifal unit is away I upgraded her laptop to GNOME 2.0.1
> >>(Ximian snapshots red-carpet channel).  And "faster" is not the correct
> >>term;  nautilus' responsiveness is instantaneous.  And the default
> >>gnome-terminal is tabbed!  And the gdm logon widget comes with themes
> >>that I can't wait to show the OS X users.  Smaller, faster, does more.
> >> Nice combo.

Agreed. I installed it last night / this morning on my Athlon XP1700 and it flies! Nautilus is finally useful.

The tabbed terminal is really cool. If I have the terminal set to 'transparent' then I do notice a little slowdown when moving the window or adding/removing tabs.

The menu structure is nice. Gone is the control-panel (at least as far as I've looked). I kinda liked having everything in one place but I suppose I'll get used to it.

Being able to create launchers directly on the desktop is long overdue.

A couple of things I've noticed so far (all related to the keyboard):
 1. I can't get the keyboard repeat to work. It was off by default and when I turned it on it just bounces the keyboard (ie. when I type an 'a' I get 'aa')
 2. When I ssh into my mail server and run mutt I have ^J mapped to 'send the message'. It's grabbing the keystroke and somehow it acting as if I pressed enter. I'm using gnome-term and haven't tried it with Xterm yet.
 3. Alt-Fn doesn't switch workspaces as it did before. Other things keep popping up.

So, I know somethings up with my keyboard definitions. I'll look further tonight when I get home. 
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org