keeping track of timezones..?

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:43:59 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> On 2/17/06, Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> wrote:
> > [xplanet]
> >
> > Screenshot (1.4MB) here:
> >
> > http://pdr.cx/tmp/screenshot20060217.png
> 
> _wow_ that is an awfully impressive desktop..

Didn't think it was *that* impressive.  Xplanet's been around for years.
And then xearth for years before it (initial release was in 1993).  It can
also provide cyclone, earthquake and volcano information and track the ISS
and other satellites.

> What are the downsides to "turn off Nautilus on the Desktop" ?
> Aside from no wallpaper..

Well some (me included actually) would say there's no downside.  But as far
as usability and such goes:

* no mouse-click menus since in GNOME these are done by Nautilus not the
  window manager.
* Desktop files not as easily accessible.

I'm really not a fan of the whole GNOME-taking-over-the-X-root-window thing,
but I understand the reasons behind it and grateful for it being optionally
disabled:

(in gconf)
/desktop/gnome/background/draw_background
and
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop

both need to be disabled.

Pete