Enabling outline dragging in Metacity?

["Richard Bheer" <bheer myway com>]

Greetings

I'm using Gnome2 on RH8 (Psyche), and I've got a rather crappy
integrated graphics card (i815, I think) that doesn't have too
much horsepower. As a result, Gnome2's solid dragging isn't
looking very good here. (I'm using Metacity)

Is there an option in Metacity, or somewhere else, to turn off
solid dragging and go back to outline dragging?


Also, a few quick questions (I dabble in usability
engineering so these are curious questions of a new Gnome user):

1. Why do many Gnome2 dialog boxes not have a Cancel button?
See for example:
<http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/figures/nautilus_preferences.png>
Was this a deliberate decision? The lack of a Cancel button makes
life much harder for novices imho, or anybody else who makes
mistakes :-|

2. (This is a Bluecurve specific question, but since RH has
played an important role in the GNOME foundation, this bears
asking) In the Bluecurve theme, looking at the window decorations
(e.g. Theme Preferences (resizable) and Font Preferences (not
resizable)) it is not at all obvious which dialogs are resizable
and which are not. Surely this is misleading and should be
addressed in the Gnome HIG?

3. Gnome does not not seem to indicate lack of focus by system
modal dialogs: In RH8, as an unprivileged user:
   a. click the 'hat' icon
   b. choose Server Settings | Services
   c. You are prompted for the root password
   d. click the hat icon again.
   EXPECTED: a menu will pop up
   ACTUAL: the hat button depresses, but nothing else happens

(Newer versions of Windows handles this by flashing the titlebar
of the window that has focus.)

Thanks for a great environment though; as soon as Galeon2 hits
the road, I think this will be my browsing environment of choice!

-Richard

PS. Please cc bheer myway com -- I'm not on this list. Thanks.




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