Since version 2.0, the default GNOME window manager is metacity. For more information I suggest you visit www.gnome.org instead of asking really basic questions on/.
the Epiphany developers are a bunch of ideologues who have announced they will never add the features that make the browser useful and usable for me.
The Epiphany developers have a vision on what a browser should and what it shouldn't be. However I can't recall an announcement "We, the Epiphany developers, will never add the features that make the browser useful and usable for Markus Registrada." Do you? Perhaps it would be nice if you'd point out which features exactly you had in mind...
The union of small- and medium business (MKB) as well as the workers' union for independents (FNV Zelfstandigen) have put out statements that call to refuse paying this levy. It seems all is not lost...
MDI browsing. This is a little better than just tabbed browsing, since you can have windows side by side. It is really convenient to be able to group browser windows together.
MDI is an ugly solution to the incompetence of your window manager, which ought to handle this. An app taking over window management is a usability nightmare. See also mpt on Opera.
foot? pounds?? inches??? lbs????
Okay so these probably are some weird Yankee measurement units. What I can't figure out however, is what kind of unit 'parachutes' is...
FWIW, Dutch voters don't have any more insight in the source code for the voting machines than Irish voters have. Similar requests have been done here to no avail.
An article by Peter Knoppers about why electronic voting is bad (Dutch). Also shows a picture of the NEDAP machine.
Java would take a huge leap forward in utility if you could just overload the =, +, -, *, and / operators
Perhaps you should take a look at Jython. It's an implementation of Python in Java which allows you to execute Python scripts within Java code or to build Java classes with Python code. Since Python supports operator overloading and has a nice clean syntax it may well be helpful in your situation.
Try as I might, I can't slowly pan over a set of items. My eyes focus on one point, then jump and re-focus on another point.
That's what cognitive psychologists call "saccades", and it's normal.:-) Your brain determines where it wants to focus it's attention next (depending on the visual periphery) and your eyes follow. In the few hundred ms it takes for your eyes to move from one position to another, you're effectively blind! So, if you would succeed in slowly panning over items, I'm sure you'd be able to make a good buck working as a test subject in psychological experiments...
And by the way, the reason the JRE isn't included in the *download* version (it's in the boxed version, mind you), is that the Sun JDK is proprietary software. The download version of Mandrake is one hundred percent GPL.
No. Beta3 and RC1 had ACPI enabled by default, but this created so many bug reports that 9.1 will ship with ACPI off. BUT: I hear that at installation time you will be able to check a box to indicate that you want ACPI and then you will have it, so no recompiling required.
Too bad OpenOffice(.org) is using its own widget set. I'm so tired of the "let's make our own widget set" mentality of modern projects...
A small correction here: OOo is not such a "modern" project as you apparently think it is. It stems from StarOffice, which has been under development for many years by the German company StarDivision before it was bought by Sun. They have their own library because at the time - long before there was GTK or Qt - there was no cross platform toolkit that met their needs. One of the remarkable things about StarOffice was that it ran on a multitude of platforms (I've run StarWriter 3.something on OS/2 myself).
And apart from all that - what do end users care about which widget set was used...
Are you saying you have OS/2 running on PPC?!
I remember from a few years ago there was a big uproar in the OS/2 community- the PPC version of OS/2 Warp was finally ready after many delays and then IBM decided to shelve it. A big loss for the still PPC platform, but something may have come out of it after all, considering your post.
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Since version 2.0, the default GNOME window manager is metacity. For more information I suggest you visit www.gnome.org instead of asking really basic questions on /.
Google for the PrefBar or the Evangelism sidebar. They both offer the functionality you ask for.
The union of small- and medium business (MKB) as well as the workers' union for independents (FNV Zelfstandigen) have put out statements that call to refuse paying this levy. It seems all is not lost...
4, Insightful is the least I expect. :)
foot? pounds?? inches??? lbs???? Okay so these probably are some weird Yankee measurement units. What I can't figure out however, is what kind of unit 'parachutes' is...
No. Perhaps you'd be willing to provide some proof of this? I can hardly imagine Mandrakesoft spamming LUGs like this.
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FWIW, Dutch voters don't have any more insight in the source code for the voting machines than Irish voters have. Similar requests have been done here to no avail.
An article by Peter Knoppers about why electronic voting is bad (Dutch). Also shows a picture of the NEDAP machine.
darnit, it's a bugzilla link. If I could mod myself down, I would. :-((
If you use Moz on UNIX, just highlight that URL and middle click.
Of course, you could also just have provided a simple hyperlink...
No, they're not, since Vera hasn't been finished yet (only a non-GPL beta release IIRC).
If you want to know what a croquet really is, ask the Dutch. Or take a look here: Van Dobben Croquetten
The full advisory for Mandrake can be found at MandrakeSecure.
And by the way, the reason the JRE isn't included in the *download* version (it's in the boxed version, mind you), is that the Sun JDK is proprietary software. The download version of Mandrake is one hundred percent GPL.
Since you're implying you're not a 'newb' any more, I'm sure you could handle a 'sudo rpm --rebuilddb'.
A lot has changed between 7.2 and 9.1, you might want to give it a try again.
No. Beta3 and RC1 had ACPI enabled by default, but this created so many bug reports that 9.1 will ship with ACPI off. BUT: I hear that at installation time you will be able to check a box to indicate that you want ACPI and then you will have it, so no recompiling required.
A small correction here: OOo is not such a "modern" project as you apparently think it is. It stems from StarOffice, which has been under development for many years by the German company StarDivision before it was bought by Sun. They have their own library because at the time - long before there was GTK or Qt - there was no cross platform toolkit that met their needs. One of the remarkable things about StarOffice was that it ran on a multitude of platforms (I've run StarWriter 3.something on OS/2 myself).
And apart from all that - what do end users care about which widget set was used ...
Last I heard, gcj / Classpath project didn't support Swing, so probably the answer is no. :)
Are you saying you have OS/2 running on PPC?! I remember from a few years ago there was a big uproar in the OS/2 community- the PPC version of OS/2 Warp was finally ready after many delays and then IBM decided to shelve it. A big loss for the still PPC platform, but something may have come out of it after all, considering your post.
Strange, noone has mentioned the GNOME Usability Project yet. So it will be me, then. =]