Minor Gnome annoyances

[David M. Carney]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:17:48 +0300, Ecmel Ercan <ecmel at ercansoy.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:24:01 -0700, June Tate wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 18:37 +0300, Ecmel Ercan wrote:
> >>
> >
> > ...snip...
> >
> >> 3. The inbox monitor has awful icons :) and does not provide a secure
> >> means of login.
> >
> > I agree -- the inbox monitor's icons _are_ pretty bad -- but that's not
> > the biggest problem I have with it. I'm actually annoyed that it doesn't
> > have anything other than plain text authorization and doesn't have an
> > IMAP/POP over SSL connection method. I'd rather not have my passwords
> > blasted across the 'net unencrypted every 10 minutes, thanks. =op
> 
> Right now I am using http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ (with SSL) and it
> has all the features that you mentioned. Hope it will make into Ubuntu in
> the future.
> 
> 
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I too have noted that sometimes when I login to Gnome it says it's
detected another gnome-panel is running so it is exiting.

As a temporary fix, I find that hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 and switching to a
tty, then logging in and issuing a 'killall gnome-panel' will kill the
"extra" panel and allow the Gnome login process to finish as expected
with a Gnome-Panel.

My thoughts are that sometimes the gnome-panel must not be terminating
upon logging out of Gnome.

As for the icons, I don't use the "standard" inbox monitor. I pop all
my mail using fetchmail, hotwayd (Hotmail), and FetchYahoo. It is then
all forwarded to my Gmail account.

So I use another applet that is called (appropriately) mail
notification. It's just an envelope. If you have mail, it appears in
your panel notification area. If you don't, it disappears.

Best of luck to you!

David

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