On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:05:21 -0400, you wrote: >On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:22:59PM -0400, Charles Bronson wrote: >> Is RedHat planning on adding the option of having the Numlock on at boot and/or >> when Gnome starts up? I know KDE has an preference setting for this and Mandrake >> has an RPM to handle it. Maybe it is a topic for kernel developers and the Gnome >> team but RH has spent so much time on the usability that I was hoping they would >> come up with a fix if the separate developer groups weren't. I too would like very much to see an easy way to have Numlock active at boot. Considering that Numlock IS for "numbers", it just seems a logical given that it should be. >We'd almost certainly only do this in the context of an upstream >project, for several reasons; first, if you add a config option that's >like adding API, it causes problems if upstream adds the same option >differently later on; second, it's a UI/string change which means docs >and translations have to be updated, and all docs/translation work >happens upstream; third, it is something worth fixing but it's >probably not a large enough issue to be worth maintaining a custom >patch. Speaking of "usability", and forgive me if I am just plain ignorant.... better yet, please educate me on this one item, if you will... When I log in as root I can easily use a "right click menu item" to make a symbolic link to any given directory, then move that link to the desktop (in Gnome), but that menu item is not accessible if I log in as a "regular user". What gives? > >The ideal situation is that we don't have any patches vs. upstream >projects other than changes to default themes and configuration, and >for GNOME we're pretty close to that at the moment. > >Havoc -- Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Dennis D. Calhoun <http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dcalhoun/>
