Very nice. If you're in Gnome2 anyway. It's essentially a front end to Xine (although to be fair/truthful, what most people call xine, is xine-ui, which is just the default front end that they produced.) It does away with the 95% of options the most people never use, and leaves you with a simple gnome interface. If you have a GTK2 theme in place, it uses that too. It also (the key thing that converted me over) has the ability to play files from the samba without mounting the remote share (I think this is done through gnome-vfs?). This is cool, especially if you have movie/TV series leeching flatmates. ;) Re Metacity: I understand the author of metacity (and indeed, one of the ideas behind GNOME) believes in intelligent defaults. For those who want to fiddle, there's always sawfish and KDE. ;) Edward On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:24, Oliver Jones wrote:
Movie players: GXine, Totem
I'm not familiar with Totem. What is it like?
Image Viewer: Gthumb for small amounts, CompuPic for large amounts
I trialed CompuPic once. Has it improved lately? If I remember rightly it wasn't free or OpenSource. Is this still the case?
Window Manager: Metacity?? The one built in to Gnome 2.2 works well enough for my needs
Metacity is a nice clean quick WM. It does lack a few features I miss a little from Sawmill/Sawfish.
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