end-user whines about 2.10

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:14:11 -0800, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

>>>   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 :-)

Almost all of your 'whine' should be take up to GNOME developers.

Cheers,
Mezz

> randy


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