kmaraas(a)broadpark.no (Kjartan Maraas) writes:
> But it still does not respect current settings (was Gnome2.4
running
> previously, then use normal window mode. Else, use the default spatial
> mode), right?
>
The decision was made to use spatial as default, can you seriously still
be offended by having to flick a switch two years later?
There has nothing been changed in these two years on the Gnome2 practice to
enforce the Gnome2 ideas of "usability". The Emacs -> Windoze keybindings
were introduced silently without a smooth transition, the ~/.X* files were
made pointless, Firefox was crippled, ...
> So they do not care about existing ~/.Xresources entries and
there is
> not way (not even in the registry) to turn off this behavior. Ditto
> for ~/.Xmodmap...
>
AFAIK there is code in gnome-settings-daemon to merge stuff from both
Xmodmap and Xresources, maybe the daemon just has bugs that were never
filed because someone decided to flame and rant about the issue because
they thought it was a conscious decision to fuck users over?
You know where bugzilla is if that's the case.
Filing bugs regarding Gnome2 usability is senseless; Gnome2 developers think
that they are the gods of usability and reject anything which is against
their ideas. E.g. regarding ~/.Xresources read [1]: instead of adding an
appropriate configuration option, Gnome2 developers give worthless responses
like "if you do not like it, delete files under /usr/share/...". Perhaps a
good practice under Windoze, but does not work in Linux where I might have
no perms for that or the next autoupdate will override my "settings".
Similarly for ~/.Xmodmap in [2]. And regarding firefox, the BZ tickets
were told in this thread already.
Enrico
Footnotes:
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103521
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117221