Re: A few general questions

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On 05 Mar 2001 20:59:52 -0600, Len Philpot wrote:
> I've started using gnome 1.2 recently and am starting to collect 
> a few questions for which I can find no answers in the 
> documentation, so I'll just shoot away in case anyone can help.
> 
> 
> Is there any way to disable/turn off/whatever the automatic 
> underlining and 'activation' (for lack of a better word) of URLs 
> in gnome-terminal when the mouse pointer passes over them? This 
> can be very distracting.

I'm not sure... I don't see the option at a quick glance. I kinda doubt
it...

 
> When adding launchers and/or drawers to the panel, is there a 
> way to prevent the icon from being scaled up in size? This is a 
> real problem with a launcher as they become HUGE and very nasty 
> looking due to the bitmap scaling. I use a 17" monitor at 
> 1024x768 and any icon over about 1/4" square is too big for me. 
> There's a pretty good collection of 16x16 icons, but once they 
> get scaled up, they're UGLY. Even the 32x32 icons are left 
> alone. I guess they're scaled to 48x48 (for what reason?)...


The Gnome icons all come at 48x48. I made a bunch of large (192x192)
icons and put them at www.cs.hmc.edu/~ben/icons/ I'm not sure why what
you've got problems with ugly icons unless you'r scaling them to above
48x48... They should scale pretty smoothly down.

> Related to the previous question, an even better solution would 
> be NOT to use an icon at all, not even the resulting default 
> icon. Text would be best. I'd love to have every icon replaced 
> by a text-labeled button, but I doubt there's any way to do 
> that. Any ideas?


You'r not the first to suggest it. It currently isn't possible.

> Is there any way to get around the split personality of the 
> panel menu: primarily owned by root, with only pieces here and 
> there by the current user. I'd like to configure it so the 
> current user can control _all_ the contents of the menu (as much 
> as possible). Obviously he won't be able to run things to which 
> he has no access, but control over the menu would be good.

I completely agree. I'm not sure why it is the way it is. It's not
intuitive and just plain frusterating... I suppose the idea is that then
you always have access to everything in that you can't delete the link,
but that's a lame excuse.... I'd think the user could basicly work with
a diff of the menu---that way new sofware would show up, etc. Also, the
current behavior means that ``Properties...'' is insensitive for
everythign in the menu. That means that you can't find out what the name
of the program is without making a copy of the entry onto the panel.
That's just silly.

--Ben

> And while I'm at it...  :)
> 
> This may be more appropriate in a Balsa forum; let me know if 
> so. Why won't it (Balsa 1.1.1) even try to check for incoming 
> mail on a remote POP3 server? I'm at home with a cable modem and 
> no local mail, just internet. I can't get the POP3 mailbox to 
> show up in the list and it steadfastly refuses to retrieve any 
> mail from it, even when I _know_ there's mail there. No errors, 
> just nothing. I have no other mailboxes defined at all. Any 
> ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
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