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On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 04:41 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> YMMV on this as I'm a KDE power user and as a result, dislike GNOME's 
> crippled options with a passion, but I'd suggest checking dbus.  It 
> sounds like the dbus messages aren't getting thru telling the app over 
> which the mouse is hovering that it's there.

Hey, Duncan,

I posted to this list yesterday, but in the fatigue-induced fog in which
was operating I probably put in the wrong from address and the email got
trashed by the list server.

A switch and switch back of window managers, plus a restart of the user
account solved the problem - kind of a Linux equivalent of Microsoft's
"three R's" technique.

I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE.  It used to
be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software
design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot
of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff
just got abandoned.  I've played a little bit with programming for
Gnome.  The Gobject pseudo-OO framework is an abomination and the API is
pretty messy.  KDE just uses plain old C++, which is plenty adequate.
KDE packages that I've used on my Gnome desktop, notably k3b for CD and
music work, is really solid and feature-rich without being overloaded
with cruft.  I'm really attached to galeon as a browser, but am
switching to firefox for web development, which will run on both Gnome
and KDE.  Maybe it's time to revisit KDE.

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