Re: CVS Enlightenment Problems

[i2ambler <i2ambler bellsouth net>]

On Sun, 07 Mar 1999, raster@redhat.com wrote:

I must say the nifty little background thumbnails steal the show, also.. :)


> On  4 Mar, James M. Cape scribbled:
> ->  The following is just a small list of things that are busted or bug me:
> ->  
> ->  1. When enabling sliding desktop switching, the switching always takes
> ->  place the same way: i.e. when switching from #1 to #2, it slides #2 up,
> ->  but when switching from #2 to #1, it doesn't slide #2 down out of the
> ->  way, which seems backwards to me.
> 
> they always slide in.. its just the way it is.. :)
> 
> ->  2. No sliding effects occur at all when switching to Desktop 0.
> 
> if you can work out how to move the root window I'll have to kiss
> you... but desktop 0is the root window.. and well.. I havent' managed
> to figure out how to move it yet... :) (no - dont mention xvidtune...
> not an option)
> 
> ->  3. The Root Menu needs to be a user-editable file in ~/.enlightenment,
> ->  and having that file editable by e-conf would be great.
> 
> it is a user-editable file.
> cp /usr/share/enlightenment/configs/menus.cfg ~/.enlightenment
> and edit it.
> 
> no gui to edit yet.
> 
> ->  4. A right-click "Send to > Desktop 0[-X]" menu on the windows would be
> ->  really nice, and save a lot of time over the switch/pull/drag/pullback
> ->  method which is required now.
> 
> heres a nice shortcut:
> hit titlebar for "move"
> hit
> alt-F1 or switch to another desktop and bingo window stays
> release mouse to "drop window"
> and you just moved it.
> tomove it between virtual desktops just drag to the screen edge and E
> will flip.
> 
> ->  5. Backgrounds directory? I think it would be nice to have a
> ->  user-definable backgrounds directory available to be set for e-conf, so
> ->  I could have all my non-theme backgrounds in a certain directory (for
> ->  me, ~/pix/backgrounds).
> 
> ~/.enlightenment/backgrounds
> 
> alreayd setup )menus.cfg creates a menu by recursively scannign that
> one)
> 
> ->  6. Having a Backgrounds directory would be nice as well.
> ->  
> ->      Jim Cape
> ->      http://www.jcinteractive.com
> ->  
> ->      "All animals are equal, some animals
> ->       are more equal than others."
> ->           -- George Orwell, Animal Farm
> ->  
> ->  
> 
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> Subject: RE: esd == bad_sound
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> On  4 Mar, Jorge Gomes Silva scribbled:
> ->  By the way, I'm looking for streaming audio software for using in another 
> ->  project and I'd like to know (if possible) why did you choose esound 
> ->  instead of, say, NAS ? What alternatives did you consider ?
> 
> NAS and rplay - NAS had other issue s(api was hard to port stuff too)
> and didnt work half the time - limit of 32 channels etc.. rplay had
> absoluely horrid quality.
> 
> esd started as a way of providing a tiny soudn server that supports
> both samples and streaming and is small and easy to maintain and expand.
> 
> ->  
> ->  Thanx in advance.
> ->  
> ->  Jorge.
> ->  
> ->  On Thursday, March 04, 1999 3:59 AM, James Charles Lewis 
> ->  [SMTP:lewis1@expert.cc.purdue.edu] wrote:
> ->  >
> ->  > Maybe its just me, but doesn't esd's sound basically suck?
> ->  >
> ->  > I'm using mpg123 through esd, and there are always clicks and blips. 
> ->   Even
> ->  > when mpg3's aren't playing, I can hear stuff clicking after sound 
> ->  effects.
> ->  >
> ->  > Is there something that I could do differently?  I'm using esound 0.2.8,
> ->  > the one that came with Gnome 1.0pre ...err I mean finial.  (hard to tell
> ->  > the difference with so many segfaults)
> ->  >
> ->  > -James
> ->  >                 _
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> ->  >
> ->  > jclewis@purude.edu
> ->  >
> ->  > Please place all complaints in this box  ----------> [ ]
> ->  >
> ->  >
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