On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Jedy Wang <Jedy.Wang at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Please see my comments inline. > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 21:52 +0000, Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> 2nd app I tried, Avant Window Navigator, didn't work. (Bug 5855.) >> I installed it to see what it was, but still have no idea. > You should enable composite before you run Avant. You can do this by > 1) Use compiz > 2) Run gconf-editor in your terminal; > Check /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager.
But the point is that you click the icon in the menu, the application fails, and the user has no idea why. And the above instructions are just a workaround. I've added some comments to the bug; AWN has to handle this, but I'm not sure what its behaviour needs to be. > Actually, we talked about enabling composite support of metacity by > default when we were working on UI spec of 2008.11. But it had > performance when resizing a gnome-terminal window. Given how poor performance is already, I'm not really sure we want to make it any worse. >> Does evolution talk to Exchange 2007 yet? That would be a major draw. > The Exchange 2007 support will be enabled by a new connector of > evolution which is called evolution-mapi. We are investigating it and > will try to deliver it when it is officially released. Please! (Especially after the latest set of patches on our exchange server made the font for plain text email in OWA almost unreadably small.) >> Tracker doesn't work for me. There's an icon, I type in text, it never finds >> anything. > By default, tracker only search .desktop file in /usr/share/appliations. > You have to change the setting to let it index your $HOME. But how? What setting, using which application? I click on the icon to launch the search tool, I can't see anything that looks like settings or options. With the settings as it is, tracker isn't much use. So the icon shouldn't be sat prominently on the toolbar by default, or if it's left there it should start up in a 'first time user' mode where you get to configure it. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
