Firefox crippling

[Enrico Scholz]

kmaraas at broadpark.no (Kjartan Maraas) writes:

>> But it still does not respect current settings (was Gnome2.4 running
>> previously, then use normal window mode. Else, use the default spatial
>> mode), right?
>> 
> The decision was made to use spatial as default, can you seriously still
> be offended by having to flick a switch two years later?

There has nothing been changed in these two years on the Gnome2 practice to
enforce the Gnome2 ideas of "usability". The Emacs -> Windoze keybindings
were introduced silently without a smooth transition, the ~/.X* files were
made pointless, Firefox was crippled, ...


>> So they do not care about existing ~/.Xresources entries and there is
>> not way (not even in the registry) to turn off this behavior. Ditto
>> for ~/.Xmodmap...
>> 
> AFAIK there is code in gnome-settings-daemon to merge stuff from both
> Xmodmap and Xresources, maybe the daemon just has bugs that were never
> filed because someone decided to flame and rant about the issue because
> they thought it was a conscious decision to fuck users over?
>
> You know where bugzilla is if that's the case.

Filing bugs regarding Gnome2 usability is senseless; Gnome2 developers think
that they are the gods of usability and reject anything which is against
their ideas. E.g. regarding ~/.Xresources read [1]: instead of adding an
appropriate configuration option, Gnome2 developers give worthless responses
like "if you do not like it, delete files under /usr/share/...". Perhaps a
good practice under Windoze, but does not work in Linux where I might have
no perms for that or the next autoupdate will override my "settings".

Similarly for ~/.Xmodmap in [2]. And regarding firefox, the BZ tickets
were told in this thread already.



Enrico

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103521
[2]  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117221


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