On 09/15/09 02:19 AM, Hugh O'Hare wrote: > You can, this is just what most people expect a desktop to do/have. > Personally I have no icons on the desktop at all. It just takes a > few seconds to update with gconftool or gconf-editor.
Sounds cool. Where are these tools? >> Who hasn't lost a window by having it end up outside the visible >> area? The Window selector should have a drag option much like >> right-clicking on a window list icon does now. > Never had an entire window do this. There has always been some part of > it remaining even if this was just the border, in which case Alt+click > allows you to drag it back into view. This is a problem with gdm on snv103. It may have been fixed since, but if you are running xinerama with unequal sized displays, it is only too easy to have a window or dialog box disappear off the bottom of the smaller display. When this happens I know of no way to get it back (well, you can make a left panel for the smaller window, I suppose). Worse, if you accidentally drag the main panel there you are really SOL. RHFC fixes this by making the smaller display virtual and (annoyingly) makes you pan horizontally and vertically. I guess my real point was that Luis de Bethencourt had asked for Linux features we'd like to see, but in reality I suspect there are lots of old CDE/Open Look features that worked well that have ironically disappeared that we might like to see in gdm as well. I was trying to catalog some of those and the thought led to the idea of the ultimate desktop being completely blank. I vaguely remember Smalltalk being a bit like this at startup. Thanks for the suggestions, though. Cheers -- Frank
