Does anyone know how to switch off this terrible bluecurve crap and get back to Sawfish??
 
I want to use my GTK themes; like BlueHeart.
 
Thanks,
Shaun
 
 
 
linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in (Tahir Hashmi)
Date: Wed Oct  9 11:52:43 2002
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [rant] Red Hat 8 Desktop under-featured and less configurable
Message-ID: <20021009113608.3443df87.code_martial@softhome.net>
 
Hi Linuxers!
 
Okay, Gnome2 and Bluecurve look really cool, especially with AA fonts
but there's quite a lot that I didn't like. Here are the issues (when
I say that something "is" or something "isn't", it is supposed to be
*AFAIK* and not the absolute truth):
 
- Under-featured window manager:
 
     The MetaCity Window manager doesn't have any options for layering
management and attribute memory. I can't keep EveryBuddy on top now.
 
- No options for custom keyboard short-cuts:
 
     Unlike Enlightenment or Sawfish, there's no provision for having
keyboard shortcuts to run commands. There's a lot more move-move
click-click involved now.
 
- No option to switch Window Managers!
     I installed RH8 clean on one system and upgraded another. The
former doesn't have sawfish, the latter doesn't have an option to
switch Window Managers, even though it has Sawfish.
 
- Complicated Menu:
 
     The main menu is now more broad than deep a la KDE and that was
one of the main reasons why I didn't like KDE.
 
- Overall lack of customizability
 
     I could go on and on but to summarize, a lot of customizability
that Gnome users had grown accustomed to is now gone and the overall
feel has a lack of "freedom".
 
- The Terminal is now a "System Tool" (duh!)
 
I looked around the Net a little and I didn't find many people ranting
about these things. Is it just me? Am I missing something? I'd be
grateful if some of you could give some pointers.
 
TIA