fragility

Last night, after a tweet by Levi I decided to give another try to Tilda. In case you never heard about it, Tilda is a pulldown quake like terminal for Gnome, which would be something just great for me.

I had tried Tilda some months ago, but it was totally bug ridden and it didn’t respect Gnome’s HIG in terms of keyboard shortcuts (like changing tabs). After I posted this as bug report, it’s main developer seems to have liked the idea and changed it on the latest version. However there’s still one really annoying bug which, according to Tilda’s page is known:

Note: Apparently Metacity has started to not be very Tilda friendly by having focus stealing prevention on by default. Feel free to let me know if you have problems with Metacity but also let their developers know.

Right. So why does Yakuake (which is exactly the same app for KDE and has existed for a while longer) works so well with Gnome itself ?

I decided to stick with Yakuake for a while and try to get used to it. However, the stupid default keyboard shortcuts (for tab management) still annoy me and I can’t understand why it refuses to accept the same shortcuts I use in Gnome apps if i customize it that way (and no, they’re not KDE shortcuts for other actions).

One other little app I’ve been using a lot is Gnome Do. It’s just simple and perfect and eliminated most of my usage of the Deskbar Applet, which lately would be just for Tracker Live Search. However, Tracker seems to be having some problems as well. It used to work well but now it just can’t seem to find anything I want (even if the file name is all lower case and has been resting in my home directory for weeks). So that’s another app that it’s making it’s way out of my Gnome default session.

As for Glipper, it’s great to know that it was finally turned into a Gnome applet, but for some reason it keeps crashing on start. I’m using Hardy Heron, so I’m not really surprised about this.