Question about gnome

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 20:59 +0100, Werner Lehmann wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
> since I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 I use the gnome2.6 desktop. I also 
> checked out gnome2.8 on a diffrent harddisk.
> Unfortunately, there is a feature I miss in the newer gnome versions 
> since gnome2.4:
> 
> with gnome 2.4, video-files (mpeg1) were displayed as thumbnails in 
> nautilus, showing a frame from within a the video.
> When double-clicking the thumbnails, the videos were immediately played 
> in a window by nautilus itself.

The MIME system has completely changed between GNOME 2.4 and 2.8.  The
nautilus-media component is rarely used anymore except as a thumbnail
engine.

> 
> this is not so anymore with gnome2.6 and 2.8.
> 
> Is there a way to reactivate that feature?

Not really.  It looks like totem is being pushed as the new GNOME
multimedia application.  You might try checking it out.

> 
> I also heard that gnome2.8 is able to use the new 3d-features offered by 
> Xorg, like true shadows and transparency.
> Is that true? If so, how can I activate those?

Those features are not yet in the FreeBSD ports tree (i.e. X.Org 6.8.1).
That said, I don't believe GNOME 2.8 can make use of many of the new X
extensions out-of-the-box.  GNOME 2.10 should be able to, however.

Joe

> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Werner
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