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alfbar1

Member

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 34

experience

-   after install iceweasel and made default-browser some app as Transmission Viewnoir contents o links help open chromium
-  calculator lack of Backspace button really bad, and small Equal,  galculator provide a huge equal button and a Formula entry mode, Good change,but in openbox menu says Calculator no galculator
-  notifyosd to xfcenotify i dont know if it is more light or has more features, but the new comes with close button, it s good, now i cant close inmediately the notification, the past behavior hover mouse un/hide, no, But the new notify has IMO a Huge Brightness notify icon
-  hotcorners feature, good
-  new theme waldorf menu openbox is very Good , it doesnt overlap, instead uses a space to differ to submenus
-  when i use keyboard i have to use 4 press  right key  to reach Poweroff when hurry,  or 4 Tabs,  yes, Shith+Tab works but i suggest continuous selection through arrows right-left keys no limits
-  there are 2 'Icon Theme', elementary xubuntu change a little icons
-  catfish in thunar, good
-  2 tooltip styles in tint (taskbar and systray)
-  if you have many windows no the same size, mouse/touchpad user have to choose each one in tint panel  then move to each-one   close button, a lot of moves, my point is why no give by default,a close option in tint2 panel  i.e with middleclick or right
-  pavucontrol sliders works inverse, scroll up to down, scroll down to up, the dev or setting?
-  try that,  vlc window when increase volume control over 150% the 'Output Devices' slider move too, now go down in vlc window the volume and it goes down in vlc  but in 'Output Devices' the gain volume remains, frequently very loud, no return, to correct, open pavucontrol and move 'Output Devices' sliders to restore. i get INDIVIDUAL volume control sliders between apps and Devices, editing /etc/pulse/daemon.conf line
; flat-volumes = yes      to      flat-volumes = no .   I suggest a serious review of This
-   i notice that volumeicon crash when pavucontrol has some gain  over %100 in 'Output Devices', i used to control frequently the volume through volumeicon now i use more the built-in volume control in the app and now the  main use to volumeicon is to mute,  volumeicon dont seems, to me, to be appropriate with Pulseaudio, maybe compilation,
-  if there is Gain >+0dB  try to move the volumeicon slider, the gain is lost (important to users who have very low volume output) and  automatic jump to 100 or less -if it doesnt crash-
-  in the same way the tooltip tint value in volumeicon is the same that 'Output Devices' even with Gain, it s right, but the slider top is 100%, out of sync
-  out of sync, too the volume vlc window and volume vlc app in pavucontrol, solved also with  flat-volumes = no
-   the error alert sound , BEEP ,is really loud by default,  it s very annoy specially with headphones -i think that  there are not a lot of #! users who always use headphones, dont know- I think that it should be control through 'System Sounds' in  pavucontrol Playback, is nt it ?,therefore i load the card in alsamixer -not made by default- and select my preferences to Beep
-   as comptom is enable by default i think  it compels to add the feature of set transparent percent to active window like statler
-  "who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage" Disclaimer #! in accordance to it to make some crashes more bearable i think is needed a power tool -ie. mouse sometimes block, sometimes keyboard block- htop works with both situations
-  xscreensaver my problem with it, is the awful icon
-  i HAVE TO search to find out that It can reboot, halt, suspend, open console typing the command in Username field of SLiM but... using Root password, bad!!, but until now i cant use the feature yet, i suggest information in anyway i.e an info in the theme, SLiM is very slim, to me,  slim.conf, but change theme is not for me a main issue
-  there is an area of Dead Mouse click, ... conky
-  last changes in wiki seems improve it
I dont want to begin a discussion about any item above or a list of solutions i solve various and set others to me preferences, 3 dont have discussion, volume beep, slim, htop
#! s great, sorry for me english, no native

Last edited by alfbar1 (2012-05-28 17:51:48)

dubois

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 2,238

Re: experience

That's a really good review.  Thanks for sharing it with us. 

machinebacon

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Registered: 2009-07-02

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Re: experience

Thanks for the list of observations, noticed some of them, too.

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alfbar1

Member

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 34

Re: experience

second experience

• sometimes, interchange the huge brightness icon with the small brightness icon from gnome/xfce, i dont know when

• previously i suggested change Calculator, but the menu's tendency is program_name-function, but the Galculator Calculator is like redundant

• hot-corners, in order to easyly edit and choose preferences, i suggest some comments of possible commands: dmenu ~/.config/dmenu/dmenu-bind.sh (took me time), cb-lock, suspend command,  ... a lot of time searching how customise things, for that i suggest more comments in all config files

• once time loaded liveCD/USB session there is no way to install, at least no through menu, reboot is needed, if there is a reason i dont know

• known issues: thunar delay time to load, ghost windows with many combinations open close-open open-close programs, including exit menu, or click tint gsimplecal, and sometimes in place of ghost there is seccion screen fixed, all solved with disable compositor

• my case is: no volume below 80% and louder above, like exponencial way, in volumeicon preferences i set the volume adjusment to 1, achiving fine tunning, and again i used more the volume systray than volume app but the problems persist as aftermentioned. also there is a  delayed sound in large videos very frequently, with vlc or flashplayer, and sometines  backward/forward Any video with vlc or flash, result in delay or lost sound, with(out) flat volume = no, as i didnt experience it in previous #! i suppose is pulseaudio, too

• i d like the darker themes, and the return to recent documents in menu, htop in menu -> system

• good boot time, default menu options to customize is the best of all based openbox distro, notification behaviour ++

• 'lock screen' why the prompt password appears each 20 seconds why no let quiet the screen

• iceweasel vs chromium, the last beta firefox/iceweasel 15 have a great great improvements specially in memory use, yet in beta, maybe soon stable

• Suggest to forums pages: when is searched any 'term(s)' and load the 'Search results' page, there is no way to know what term(s) you ve searched a short while ago.
  reason, if change tab and return to the tab, or with various search tabs, sometines dont remember, ask myself, what was the search?
  suggest something like archforums 'Search results' page, Index » Search » Topics with posts containing 'term(s)'

Last edited by alfbar1 (2012-07-31 15:06:05)

alfbar1

Member

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 34

Re: experience

waiting the next #!

Last edited by alfbar1 (2012-07-31 19:57:34)