I have used XFCE based distros before (more appropiately, XFCE spins of Fedora) for a long time. Now I decided to check out LXDE to explore using it on legacy systems.
That´s why yesterday I downloaded the LXDE version of Fedora 15. While I was fiddling (actually, trying to tweak the start menu by removing the "release notes" folder) I selected the wrong option and ended up deleting the start button. 1. How to recreate it?. Then I decided to add the Keyboard Layout panel at the right side of the bottom bar. I did, only to find later that it only showed the US flag, and attempting to click on it (or right-click and selecting settings) does NOT offer the option to add a new keyboard layout (really idiotic behaviour, let you switch between keyboard layouts but not offering the option to add a new one? there is not even a hint of how to do it) 2. So frustrated, by that, I right-clicked and selected "remove panel". To my surprise, I didn´t remove just the keyboard layout switcher but the whole freaking panel at the bottom of the screen, the whole bar. 3. Now I´m left with a LXDE desktop without a start button, and the whole panel removed (I guess the whole bar at the bottom of the screen is a panel, in LXDE parlance, contrary to what I´d have thought, ie panels being elements of a bar). 4. Shouldn´t LXDE include a "lxde-rebuild.sh" script that restores LXDE config as it originally was, to help recover the desktop and the default panels in situations like this?. 5. REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT: ideally, when you right-click over a panel, the affected panel should be highlighted, circled in red, or something, to give the user an idea of what element (visually) is going to be affected by any following operation selected (remove, lock, etc). Think of it as 1996´s OS/2 Warp 4 "WarpGuide" feature that highlighted certain visual elements of the UI http://toastytech.com/guis/os24_warpguide.gif Of course, I might be asking about things that are already solved or dcumented somewhere, but I´m new wrt LXDE tweaking and I´m lost. I´ve searched for "LXDE lost panel" and "restore start button" "lxde" but came up with nothing of relevance. 6. I was also unable to find how to make changes to the folder view mode "globally". I wanted to set all folders view to "compact" (I don´t remember if compact is the name of the option, I just remember it provided tinier icons) 7. Also, why right-clicking on any empty space in the desktop to bring the pop-up menu only includes two options "Create an empty file" and "create a new folder" but not "create a program launcher"? How is one supposed to create a new program launcher? In short: LXDE so far fails the usability test Thoughts? Comments? Expletives? (joke, joke). Thanks in advance for your understanding FC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
