[KLUG Members] Gnome 2.0.1

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>>>>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!

A file browser/manager I actually use!  I haven't met one of those since GEOS128
on the Commodore.  The command line has always been faster/easier,  but nautilus
(especially if you fill up the scripts directory) is actually really powerful.

>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.

On my troubled install (one machine seems to be having all the problems)
gnome-terminal eats all the CPU cycles.  Haven't figured that one out yet.
 
>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.

Oh yes!

>A couple of things I've noticed so far (all related to the keyboard):

Yep, keybindings work quite differently.

>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')

My troubled machine has the same problem,  other ones are fine.

> 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.

Desktop Prefernces -> Keyboard shortcuts
Desktop Prefernces -> Advanced -> Sawfish -> Keybindings

>3. Alt-Fn doesn't switch workspaces as it did before. Other things keep
>popping up.

Nope, but in sawfish key bindings you can easily add a hot key sequence for each
workspace.  Alt-F1 & Alt-F2 are mapped to something else as adherent to a
accessability standard.