I finally switched workstations, and am running into a lot of truly annoying details with CentOS 6, and the software with it. For one, I'm doing this by webmail, and this version of Firefox *insists* on putting what I'm typing in gray, rather than black. For another, I despise the new version of thunderbird, since it now shows the full subject, if I have what they used to call the preview pane... and then take six more lines to do it, which I can't make go away.[1]
rxvt, which is my preferred terminal, comes up with about 6 pt type, and I'm trying to find out how to change that, as well as bringing up all seven of my sessions in a directory under my home, instead of home....
*sigh* Hopefully, 6.1 will fix at least *some* things...
mark, who doesn't want something that looks like M$....
1. All mailreaders used to show this information at the top of the email, and hide or unhide the rest of the headers... but no matter what, if I scrolled down, they went off the top of the screen, not stayed there occupying space.
On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:21 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I finally switched workstations, and am running into a lot of truly annoying details with CentOS 6, and the software with it.
If the same details you find annoying are the same way in upstream EL6.....
For one, I'm doing this by webmail, and this version of Firefox *insists* on putting what I'm typing in gray, rather than black.
Not to go overboard or anything, but if this behavior is in upstream the same way, then a bugzilla needs to be filed upstream. If upstream acts differently, then it would need to be filed in the CentOS tracker.
FWIW, I just checked Scalix webmail with my RHEL 6.1 system, and the text in the e-mail is gray. It's been a very long time since I've tried with a C5 desktop.... hmmm, let me see.... it's not as pale of a gray, but it's also not black, either, in Firefox 3.6.18 on a CentOS 5.6 system I have here. Probably has a lot to do with the current theme....
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*sigh* Hopefully, 6.1 will fix at least *some* things...
If it's the same behavior as upstream, then file the bug upstream. It won't be 'fixed' if it's not filed.....
If those three things are the biggest issues you're having, given how major of an upgrade it is, things are in pretty good shape, sounds like to me, at least.
On 07/19/2011 10:21 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I finally switched workstations, and am running into a lot of truly annoying details with CentOS 6, and the software with it. For one, I'm doing this by webmail, and this version of Firefox *insists* on putting what I'm typing in gray, rather than black. For another, I despise the new version of thunderbird, since it now shows the full subject, if I have what they used to call the preview pane... and then take six more lines to do it, which I can't make go away.[1]
Do you have the CompactHeader extension? This will shrink the subject area to one line with a + to expand it.
rxvt, which is my preferred terminal, comes up with about 6 pt type, and I'm trying to find out how to change that, as well as bringing up all seven of my sessions in a directory under my home, instead of home....
*sigh* Hopefully, 6.1 will fix at least *some* things...
mark, who doesn't want something that looks like M$....
- All mailreaders used to show this information at the top of the email,
and hide or unhide the rest of the headers... but no matter what, if I scrolled down, they went off the top of the screen, not stayed there occupying space.
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On 07/19/2011 10:58 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
On 07/19/2011 10:21 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I finally switched workstations, and am running into a lot of truly annoying details with CentOS 6, and the software with it. For one, I'm doing this by webmail, and this version of Firefox *insists* on putting what I'm typing in gray, rather than black. For another, I despise the new version of thunderbird, since it now shows the full subject, if I have what they used to call the preview pane... and then take six more lines to do it, which I can't make go away.[1]
Do you have the CompactHeader extension? This will shrink the subject area to one line with a + to expand it.
Thanks - this works just fine!!
rxvt, which is my preferred terminal, comes up with about 6 pt type, and I'm trying to find out how to change that, as well as bringing up all seven of my sessions in a directory under my home, instead of home....
*sigh* Hopefully, 6.1 will fix at least *some* things...
mark, who doesn't want something that looks like M$....
- All mailreaders used to show this information at the top of the email,
and hide or unhide the rest of the headers... but no matter what, if I scrolled down, they went off the top of the screen, not stayed there occupying space.
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On 07/19/2011 10:21 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I finally switched workstations, and am running into a lot of truly annoying details with CentOS 6, and the software with it. For one, I'm doing this by webmail, and this version of Firefox *insists* on putting what I'm typing in gray, rather than black. For another, I despise the new version of thunderbird, since it now shows the full subject, if I have what they used to call the preview pane... and then take six more lines to do it, which I can't make go away.[1]
Yes - thunderbird 3 uses more screen real-estate, also I just found out the funambol plug-in to allow me to sync and backup my contacts is not available and doesn't appear to be getting any nearer - this is just about enough to get me back onto 5.6!!
rxvt, which is my preferred terminal, comes up with about 6 pt type, and I'm trying to find out how to change that, as well as bringing up all seven of my sessions in a directory under my home, instead of home....
*sigh* Hopefully, 6.1 will fix at least *some* things...
yumex also has some quirks - it doesn't remember its setting and thus always goes back 'update' list - not normally a problem as I normally use yum, but when building up a new system or looking for packages yumex normally just makes life easier.
mark, who doesn't want something that looks like M$....
- All mailreaders used to show this information at the top of the email,
and hide or unhide the rest of the headers... but no matter what, if I scrolled down, they went off the top of the screen, not stayed there occupying space.
<rant> you made no comment about anaconda - I found it seems to have moved backwards - a lot! Could not find out how to set up my md-raid in any of the offered panels - so I ended up using a UBCD disk to do the partitioning and setting the "fd" mode - then anaconda showed the /dev/mdx devices - finally! Then when I tried rescue mode it asks for a restore image - I hadn't even got to the point where this could be done - I was looking for a runlevel 1 type of console so I could make some changes - I still don't know what I did, but eventually managed to crash out of the installer and get a root prompt. As I said - seems to have gone seriously backward. </rant> Having vented, I must say the rest of CentOS 6.0 seems to work well - I'll keep exploring.
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