[5605] in testers
Re: Problems configuring multiple workspaces.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jul 1 13:30:17 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 01 Jul 2003 13:30:15 -0400
Is it possibly worth at least the effort to disable/label broken, the
useless control in the applet?
-wdc
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:07, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > The workspace switcher panel applet has a control that enables you
> > to set the number of workspaces. That number is reset to 1 after a
> > logout.
>
> This is a bug; see <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91428>.
> Unfortunately, the fix appears to involve adding new functionality to
> gnome-settings-daemon and possibly worse. I think beyond the
> difficulty threshold for a bug of this nature (not in core Athena
> functionality, and there's a workaround).
>
> The two sawfish configurator usability issues seem annoying, but not
> severe enough to warrant a local fix.
