I tried out Scientific Linux 6 Live to see (basically) what I can expect with CentOS 6 and was pleased to find that everything looks pretty familiar and is easily customizable to make it look and feel like 5.6 -- except for one thing that I also noticed in Ubuntu's newest beta (my Dad uses Linux Mint). For whatever reason, Gnome has decided to put the Volume Control and Network Manager in the Notification Applet. (It's worse with Ubuntu, they've put four applets there by default.) On my desktop I don't display the Network Manager, but I like the Volume Control to be there (on the very right beside the clock). I spent most of my "trial time" with SL 6 trying to figure out how to separate these two applets from the Notification Applet -- without success. Is there a configuration file I can change or a configuration program I can run to customize this?
I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome want to limit the ability to customize?
Thanks for any pointers.
On 04/16/2011 06:34 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: [snip]
the clock). I spent most of my "trial time" with SL 6 trying to figure out how to separate these two applets from the Notification Applet -- without success. Is there a configuration file I can change or a configuration program I can run to customize this?
Afaik there is no way to make Gnome applets that make use of the Notification Area by design to do something outside of the Notification Area.
I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome want to limit the ability to customize?
If you want the ability to customize everything have a look at KDE.
Regards, Patrick
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Patrick Lists centos-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On 04/16/2011 06:34 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: [snip]
without success. Is there a configuration file I can change or a configuration program I can run to customize this?
Afaik there is no way to make Gnome applets that make use of the Notification Area by design to do something outside of the Notification Area.
Well... that's not good.
> I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome > want to limit the ability to customize?
If you want the ability to customize everything have a look at KDE.
Or maybe XFce.
Thanks.
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:06:59 -0500 Ron Blizzard rb4centos@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Patrick Lists centos-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl wrote:
On 04/16/2011 06:34 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: [snip]
without success. Is there a configuration file I can change or a configuration program I can run to customize this?
Afaik there is no way to make Gnome applets that make use of the Notification Area by design to do something outside of the Notification Area.
Well... that's not good.
> I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome > want to limit the ability to customize?
If you want the ability to customize everything have a look at KDE.
Or maybe XFce.
Even better - fluxbox! Yay!
... I use alsa tools for volume control - I have them tied to keys like this (and then no need for gnome-volume-control or pulseaudio!):
XF86AudioLowerVolume :ExecCommand (amixer set Master 5%-) XF86AudioRaiseVolume :ExecCommand (amixer set Master 5%+) XF86AudioMute :ExecCommand (amixer set Master 0%)
... no, it's not for noobs so be prepared to hack at the configuration files.
Bob (fluxbox fanboi!)
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome want to limit the ability to customize?
Check out Gnome3 then. And weep.
Hopefully Red Hat (and CentOS) will continue using Gnome 2.x.x for a while yet. I don't understand why you would want to take away the ability to customize. That's one of the main reasons I like Linux.
Ron Blizzard wrote:
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
I realize it's not a huge deal, but it's an irritant. Why does Gnome want to limit the ability to customize?
Check out Gnome3 then. And weep.
Hopefully Red Hat (and CentOS) will continue using Gnome 2.x.x for a while yet. I don't understand why you would want to take away the ability to customize. That's one of the main reasons I like Linux.
Most likely because of the increasing number of noobs that delete/remove parts of the panels and then whine helplessly for someone to help them revert it back to default state.
Ljubomir
Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs wrote:
Most likely because of the increasing number of noobs that delete/remove parts of the panels and then whine helplessly for someone to help them revert it back to default state.
Yeah, but I wish that wouldn't result in penalizing those that actually have a clue.
Have a particularly apropos .sig
Devin
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic office@plnet.rs wrote:
Most likely because of the increasing number of noobs that delete/remove parts of the panels and then whine helplessly for someone to help them revert it back to default state.
But there's nothing to keep them removing the Notification Applet -- and when they do that, there's no "Volume Control" or "Network Manager" or several other applets (in some distributions) in the applets add-on dialog, so their problem is worse than it was before.
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