What’s up…
I’m writing this from Dropline Gnome 2.10.2. I thought I’d try Gnome one more time before I gave up on it completely. While I do have to say that the Dropline folks have done a great job of packaging software and making Gnome easy to install, Gnome just isn’t for me. I just can’t get it to act the way I want it.
For example, I regularly have at least 2 programs running the background (IM program and a music player). Under KDE I have these programs “iconized” to the system tray where they won’t take up valuable real estate on my 1024×768 screen. However, for some reason I can’t get Rhythmbox and GAIM to iconize–they just sit there using space on my task bar. Throw a Rhythmbox plugin for Audioscrabber in there, and you’ve got 3 items always on my task bar–what a mess.
A few other annoyances include the fact that Naultilus is pretty poorly configured. If click on an image and it opens in Firefox or The Gimp. If you click on KWord document you get a message saying “There is no application to open this file.” If you try to open a document across a SMB share or on a FTP server, you simply get an error message (even if you are using a “Gnome” application). Right clicking on an image and choosing “Open in Image Viewer” brings up a Gnome image viewer with a directory view instead of the image you right-clicked on. Typing “google <query>>” into the Firefox search bar does a “I’m feeling lucky” search instead of the standard search. Opening a HTML document gives me some error about Epiphany and Bonobo. Oh, and did I mention the file-chooser sucks?
I’ve been using GMail for the past week, and have to admit I like it a lot. I might even switch to it from Thunderbird… It’s pretty sick. 
If you want an invite (I’ve got 50), leave a comment, you’re email won’t be shown.
Here’s two pictures of Laurie and me on Tuesday (click to enlarge):
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