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The look and feel is much improved. The default theme is great -- some of the reds/oranges could be tweaked, tasteful use of transparency (Win 7's is pretty gau
by naner 17y ago
The look and feel is much improved. The default theme is great -- some of the reds/oranges could be tweaked, tasteful use of transparency (Win 7's is pretty gaudy, IMO), useful desktop effects (alt-tab, desktop switching, minimize/restore). My favorite improvement is all the stuff they did to get rid of the system tray and consolidate the "notification area". It looks better and is much more useful. Occasionally the battery icon disappears which is annoying but hopefully that's fixed in the final release.
Everything (almost) worked out of the box on my Thinkpad SL410. The mute and mic button on the keyboard don't work by default. Hibernate on lid-close, power saving, and all that jazz work perfectly. It cold boots incredibly fast. Noticeably faster than Windows 7.
I haven't figured out how to disable the track pad yet (it isn't in the mouse settings). :/
I've been using the RC for almost a week and had it crash once because of (I believe) Pulse Audio. shakes fist in air menacingly
Before I was using Arch and it never crashed (in a year) but I was using fewer programs and it was very utilitarian.
- awongh 17y agoDid you try editing your xorg.conf to turn the trackpad off? Or maybe you were talking about a gui solution. I'm about to install 10.04 on my new thinkpad t500. Can't wait!
- naner 17y agoYes! There is no xorg.conf. And I'd guess since Hal is gone xorg is now auto-configured through udev somehow.
- look_lookatme 17y agoThere is a package you can install called gpointing-device-settings that I've been using to tweak my touchpad. I believe it has an option to disable.
- naner 17y agoIt has the setting but doesn't appear to do anything... If I can get it to work I'll follow up later.
- look_lookatme 17y agoAh. The package has a history with gsynaptics, so maybe it is synaptics specific. Sorry it didn't work out.
- fragmede 17y agoIn gconf-editor, set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/off to true.
- naner 17y agoThanks, that one worked.
- w1ntermute 17y agoI haven't figured out how to disable the track pad yet (it isn't in the mouse settings). :/ You can do this in the BIOS.
- naner 17y agoYeah, I could on my old ThinkPad. The SL410 BIOS doesn't support this. Unless I completely missed it. But I went over the BIOS thoroughly a few times.
- w1ntermute 17y agoI'm speaking from experience with the T400, so perhaps the SL410's BIOS doesn't support it.