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- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -11/+34And I dug you down for the unnecessary anti-Ubuntu remark.
- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Gconf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GConf
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=gconf&btnG=Search+Images
If you find that an option you need has been removed, it is likely in Gconf, a very Registry-ish setup. Quite a bit easier to use than WinRegistry, but still... a little too similar for my taste.
According to the Gnome developers, you can write "The CEO is a bastard" on your screensaver, so they removed screensaver options.
It sounds like an exaggeration, but it isn't. That is the exact reason they have taken it away (rather than leaving it up to permissions or for businesses to decide). I wish I were making it up.
Links to the Gnome devs explaining this can be found here: http://digg.com/linux_unix/GNOME_2.15.4_Released#c2329677
"This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease.
If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do."
-Linus
Having said all that, I've seen many newer distro's that are using Gnome, and several use other apps or change some of these behaviors (thankfully). Gnome is a great DE, but it keeps getting simpler and simpler, even to the detriment of simple-users activities (such as setting their screensaver)
: ( - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Fair enough. I usually defend Ubuntu in these circumstances (people who are annoyed at it), but I guess my _sarcasm_ here wasn't clear here, lacking context.
For the record, I have run Ubuntu on two of my boxes before. I think it's wonderful. - hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Is there a way to make taskbar buttons translucent? I know in certain themes there are translucent pixmaps for those buttons, but in some engines, like "Murrine," I haven't been able to do it.
I hate it when I make a nice taskbar background and the buttons don't match. - MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Cool.
Is there a similar site, but for KDE? - Stemp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7«Does deleting it and installing KDE count as a cool upgrade?»
Nope it's a downgrade :P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Well, isn't it good to have choices?
There are plenty DEs to choose from, including the choice to run no DE.
I'm using xubuntu, but just while I await for fluxbuntu release.
http://wiki.fluxbuntu.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Introduction - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3http://www.kde-look.org has hacks in addition to themes.
- TheLinux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5i would like to see a fluxbox hacks website.
- prashanthellina, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0You can have the Matrix animation on the gnome desktop or draw arbitrary stuff. Check out
http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/08/22/matrix-desktop/
http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/08/24/drawing-on-your-desktop/ - DrDabbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@TheLinux
Here's all the hack site a real fluxbox user would ever need: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Your answer lies in Gconf
More specifically, gconf-editor
Google'ing your query turns up the following relevant results:
Disabling Tooltips in Gnome: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1777
I believe this is just the origin of the above link: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/11/msg02454.html "No one said that GNOME makes customisation easy."
And here are a couple of other frustrated folks: http://thoth.robrohan.com/client/index.cfm/2006/11/4/Kinda-Turn-Off-Tooltips-in-Ubuntu
"I've used the same technique as you describe. Took about 4 or 5 hours to find it."
Mind you, these are Google's top results. Gnome does not make these things easy : (
KDE has problems too, but quite a few are technical. Most of Gnomes issues stem from the Gnome devs treating end users *worse* than Microsoft in their assumptions about their intelligence and their desire to actually make minor choices about their computer.
/end rant.
I hope that helps, and good luck. I remember having the same problem. The options are in quite a few places - and you have to find them all. Kinda like Pokemon - only more annoying. Again, hope you have a better time of it than I did. I don't recall the specifics beyond Gconf-editor and Google. - skold1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Hi
is there a way to disable the tooltips when you go with the mouse over menus? - pjleonhardt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Edit the source code yourself?
- kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I want the weather applet to only show the sky conditions, not the temperature. Any ideas how I can do this?
- BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Does deleting it and installing KDE count as a cool upgrade? because that's what I did
(and before I get "KDE is teh bl0atz0rz" comments, GTK+ is very memory hungry, so in ram both KDE and GNOME work out the same. Plus it's all preference so lighten up) - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -45/+19Dugg for stating "GNOME Hacks" and not something like"Ubuntu Tips".
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