Hi, now I actually tried GNOME 3.2 (with openSUSE Factory GNOME Live CD). First - it does not start without "nomodeset" on an intel 855GM. Is there a boot parameter to force GNOME fallback mode without disabling modeset? Even the GDM fails "something has happened - please contact your system administrator". It should try fallback mode if it cannot start the blingbling mode. On 12.10.2011 19:34, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mercredi 12 octobre 2011, à 19:28 +0200, Stefan Seyfried a écrit :
On 10.10.2011 11:31, Vincent Untz wrote:
You can move the clock, and I'd be happy to hear the other curious stories -- a lot of them are unfortunately misinformed.
* you cannot move the panel to the left or right edge * you cannot disable the top (or bottom) panel
Press alt when right-clicking. There you go.
Ok, this works.
* you cannot change the insanely big height of the panel
The height depends on the font size (make your font smaller in gnome-tweak-tool) and your theme (unlucky, we don't ship any other theme right now for GTK+ 3).
Unfortunately there is no tool to do that. Nothing with "appearance" found in system-settings. Also nothing wiht "tweak". I guess that would also be needed to reduce the insanely big window-decorations (try this on an 1024x768 display, about half of your screen is filled by GNOME. Nothing left to do real work). Probably even better on a 1024x600 netbook... :-) Ha, now I found the tweak tool. So now advanced critcism: * even with unuably small fonts (scaling factor to 0.5), the panel is still the same size. I can now set the panel to 19 pixels (still at least 3 too much ;) but it stays at ~32 (it only gets bigger if I increase the size above 32 pixels. I guess this is because of the Icons. I have no idea how a non-superexpert user would change this. My customers (family) would kill me for such a setting: HUGE icons / panels and unreadable fonts. * the same for the window decoration: it shrinked a little bit with the unreadable font, but it is still at least two times too big. I guess it is about ~25 pixels, but it should be <= 12. * you cannot resize the tweak tool window, but the contents do not fit into the window. * alt-right mouse does not resize windows This is all in fallback mode. And this is way worse than GNOME2 ever was. And GNOME2 is still much worse than XFCE which "just works". You can even do "maximize horizontally" and "maximize vertically" like in every other desktop environment ;-) so no, this GNOME3 will probably have to go through a few revisions to be suitable to non-super-expert users :-). Let's hope it does not end like KDE4 which - in its 8th iteration - is still almost as bad as in the first try 4.0... Oh -- requiring tracker to be installed (since a recent update, I can no longer uninstall it and I need to check if it is actually started and if I have to get rid of it somehow) is almost as "funny" as the old beagle or KDE4's insistence on starting up nepomuk, strigi, akonadi or similar crap. Good luck, seife -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org