im like clicking refresh every hour. i hope once i get back from class it will be uploaded. yayyy. say it with me yaaay.

how many of you use dropline and whats your thoughts on it?

Let me put it this way: It is the best thing that happened in some time!

If it wasn't XFCE4 (www.xfce.org), I would always be on DropLine-Gnome!!!!

I like clean desktop and NO Micro$oft similarities...

But I don't like the NO-Desktop, almost Only-Window Manager way... Like Sawfish, fluxbox, etc...

My Vote goes 100% on XFCE4 and DropLineGnome alltogether.

I'm thinking about trying the latest xfce, too. But I'll enjoy my dropline first. I just installed it on sunday.

I can't use Dropline, my fonts messed up after I installed it. Can someone help me about this issue?

Check your home directory for .font or .fonts.conf

I am not familiar with this app but I had a font problem earlier this week. quatsch helped me out here Disable Anit-Aliased Fonts

finally the new version is released.

I tried a version of Dropline GNOME back on Slackware 8.1 because GNOME 1.4 sucked and I didn't really want to go to the trouble of compiling GNOME but quickly discovered Dropline sucked too (it had weird screen drawing issues) so I ended up compiling my own GNOME anyway.

i'm installing now. strangely, i got this error while running the installer and had to pass the --force command:

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You appear to be running Slackware 9.1.0. This is not a supported platform for Dropline GNOME. If you would like to try installing anyway, pass the --force parameter to the Dropline Installer.
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Slackware 9.1? that's a new one on me. i didn't even think 9.1 was out yet.

do you use swaret and updated to current?

oh, yeah.

> edit: btw, is that generally a safe practice? or should i set it to the current numbered version? thx

it should be okay, just gotta use force

well for a very quick initial review, overall the new dropline is great, but i think it has a few minor annoyances. the biggest one is that the bottom task bar doesn't totally hide. icons don't totally align correctly with the top, either, being a little low, so i think there are some desktop geometry problems. other than that and a few other very minor things (no bubblemon anymore? mail checker is too verbose, etc.) it's pretty slick. it seems faster, too, and the nautilus file dialog boxes seem faster and improved (i never used it enought to remember if it used to highlight directories like it does now, but it's definitely faster). screenshot - desktop problems

[edit> also now you have to double-click the mail checker to open the client, whereas before you only had to single click. sounds minor, but when you're used to single clicking, it sux. why should you have to d-c, anyway? that's sort of like all the "are you sure you want to empty the trash" dialogs in windows. if i clicked it once, i think i want to open it!]

by far the biggest problem with dropline is its packaging of old versions of the gimp. i have 1.3.18 installed, and dropline added 1.2.5 and somehow made it the default. now when i right click on images and select "open with -> the gimp," it opens the old version. ugh. i guess i could have selected individual packages and just left the gimp out, but that is a lot more time consuming than just choosing to update everything. dropline should just leave it out if it's going to be an old package. i'm wondering now what else might have gotten "downgraded."

there seems to be a couple of new themes that are nice additions (amaranth the best one i think - really nice), and there are a few new icons that are okay. supposedly they are "scalable," but it seemed to me the old ones scaled, too (e.g., dragging one to a taskbar and it would shrink to the right size). but more themes is a move in the right direction.

and speaking of icons, another major gripe i have (that maybe has more to do with gnome) is how you can't change the path for an icon when you right click on properties. if you want new options in the path you have to create a whole new icon. kind of a pain... but overall the new dropline is an improvement, and i still think gnome/dropline is the best desktop env. bar none (including all versions of windows, of course).

the first set of problems or annoyances you mentioned int he first paragraph, isn't dropline's fault, but GNOME 2.4 period.

i wondered about that when writing to the dropline developer. thanks for pointing out what is from what, though.

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i'm not sure how much is gnome, and how much is dropline, but fwiw,
here is a copy of a quickie review i posted at linuxquestions.org.
btw, i think dl/gnome is great work, i'm not trying to slam anything,
just trying to point out a few issues i have at least. thanks. :-)