I most likely cannot be around this Saturday so I'll list my
observations here.
There is a thread from last week where we tried to determine why two
instances of WiCD are appearing in the system tray each time TDE is
started. I tried moving /etc/xdg/autostart/wicd-tray.desktop out of the
way and then no WiCD system tray instances were run. After moving it
back TDE once again starts two instances. I did not observe this
behavior in XFCE 4.8 which I was running previous to installing TDE.
I was a bit stymied attempting tocustomize KDM from kControl. No matter what I
tried, Debian More Orbit Blue was shown. I finally had to comment out
the Theme line (as I recall) to allow my changes to be seen. If a
default them is chosen, mention should probably be made in kcontrol that
the system theme setting overrided changes made in kcontrol's KDM
module.
Desktop icons. I don't use too many but the few I have are set to be
lined up vertically, directories first, and locked in place. Plugging
in a flash drive results in its icon being placed in a new vertical row
not exactly lined up with the existing icons. I would prefer it to be
placed at the bottom of the existing icon list on the desktop. It seems
as though that was the behavior up to 3.5.10, as I recall.
I am using Xscreensaver rather than kscreensaver. There are some issues
with screen locking that occur after lid close and resume from suspend.
I have things configured so that the screen is locked on lid close and
when I reopen the lid I get the Xscreensaver password dialog. I also
have the screen set to be locked upon resume and then I first get a TDE
password dialog followed immediately by the Xscreensaver password
dialog! I use Xscreensaver only for the reason that its savers are more
varied and it changes savers at a configurable interval. If
Kscreensaver would change savers at a regular interval rather than at
each saver start in Random mode, I could drop Xscreensaver.
No real show stoppers here, just a few minor annoyances. :-) Overall,
I give the project an A++ rating for keeping a great desktop environment
moving forward.
- Nate >>
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