given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
When you use Nautilus to copy multiple things to multiple places, is it just me or does it do all the operations concurrently, slowing them all down as it scrubs back and forth between disk locations?
And why doesn’t it have a Pause button?
If I edit my Wine menu entry for “Mozilla Firefox” to “Mozilla Firefox Wine”, it remembers the change, but it’s still not displayed in the menu. This is because
- The menu entry editor only changes the
Name[en_US]=value in the .desktop file. - Gnome only reads the
Name=value, which does not change when you edit it.

“I don’t see why we should support tiling in Gnome. Compiz can do it.”
Unless Compiz doesn’t work, of course.

I keep pushing “Authenticate”, but the window doesn’t go away.
(Apparently this is because PolicyKit doesn’t work over NX. Nice.)
Gnome Do has has the ability to run “Home Folder”, which opens your home folder. Except not really. You run it and nothing ever happens.
This bug was reported three releases ago, can be solved by adding a space and a dot to a text file, yet it still hasn’t been fixed. This is the norm in the wonderful world of Open Source.
So now when I log in, I often get several “applet failed to load” errors.
Sometimes if I log out and log back in, they work again.
Other times I have to log out, log back in under “Failsafe GNOME”,go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications > Options tab, click “Remember Currently Running Applications”, log back out, switch back to regular GNOME, log back in. Sheesh.


