Hello, Regarding Advanced Settings, why focus-follows-mouse should work such and such way... On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 23:41, Jim Clark wrote: > Evidently, GNOME developer's 'just works' philosophy is not being > recieved as well by everyone. Check out the thread on the > focus-click-raise issue, which just so happens to be the reason I > started this thread. User interfaces need to be customizable in some > areas because users can't agree on the "proper" way things should work. > Hopefully GNOME will see a richer set of options in the future. > > thanks for the reply. > > Jim > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 19:11, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Jim Clark wrote: > > > After installing FC1, I can't seem to find the panel for setting advance > > > settings for Gnome. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? > > > > What "advance settings"? The GNOME developers have been mostly working > > on software that "just works" rather than sofware with a million > > configuration options. People who like to fiddle and aren't daunted at the prospect of changing their window manager are free to do so. You're on a linux system with GNU utilities. Go for broke. I love the executive design decisions that RedHat has made with regard to it's desktops since RH8. Excessive options do not a good interface make. It IS possible to build a good UI without offering every option in the world to make everyone happy (we're all humans afterall, there are common threads in our experience and ways of looking at things). The RedHat desktops are great for a silent majority of desktop users who really couldn't care less, and just want to get work done. I can't find a thing wrong with Fedora's GUI. And this is coming from someone who started with Linux on his 486 and fvwm, I've seen it all. I understand liking options, and that's why ftp sites carry the source code or RPMs for hundreds of window managers. Don't crucify RedHat for standardizing on one so that more important things, like system stability and performance, can be focused on. -- Merc zenmerc@xxxxxxxxxxx Yeah.
