disappointment over default acpid config

[Enrico Scholz]

sundaram at redhat.com (Rahul Sundaram) writes:

>>>g-p-m is obviously intended for GNOME but would work on other desktop
>>>enviroments.
>> ...
>>GNOME2 apps are usually not running properly in non-GNOME2 environments.
>>E.g. their fontsize can not be configured (running 'gnome-settings-daemon'
>>is not possible because it *enforces* its ideas about e.g. the keyboard
>>layout or .Xresources which were configured in other ways already).
>>
> I never had any reason to configure font sizes while running GNOME apps on
> KDE.

My grandpa requires large fonts, I do not like the default Gnome2 fonts
and specialized environments like VDR/TV need larger/other fonts too.


> For my limited use GNOME apps worked fine on KDE and viceversa
> excepts for things like applets which didnt have a freedesktop
> specification. Might want to file some bug reports against GNOME
> bugzilla for specific use cases like configuring resources.

Such requests exist, but it does not make much sense to ask Gnome2
developers for additional configurability :(



Enrico