Quirks

Things that may bite or surprise... or both!

6.1. Panel Menus Disappear

With the return of menu editing, old vfolder configurations and changes may affect your menus in the 2.0.2 release. You can remove past menu changes by deleting your ~/.gnome2/vfolders/ directory and restarting the panel.

6.2. Dialogue Buttons

Dialogue buttons are slightly different in GTK+ and GNOME 2.x, to fit in with our new Human Interface Guidelines. Whilst the new button order may simply look 'backwards', they do adhere to a consistent and elegant design. It is described in the Alert Buttons section of the HIG.

6.3. Auto-apply

As a rule, preference dialogs are now auto-apply, so do not be surprised by the lack of an Apply button.

6.4. Tearable menus

Tearable menus are gone by default. To reinstate them, use gconf-editor and change the value of /desktop/gnome/interface/menubar_detachable to TRUE.

Changing this GConf key does not instantly apply. To ensure that the change takes place, you must log out, kill any GNOME daemons still running (such as bonobo-activation), and log in again.

6.5. Cut and Paste

The clipboard is a common source of confusion. GTK has always done the right thing for the clipboard, and the version used in GNOME 2 is no different. See http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt. If the clipboard doesn't work it's because some application is not following the spec correctly; please file bug reports for those applications.

Qt 2 does not follow the clipboard specs correctly, so correct applications do not interoperate with Qt 2. Qt 3 fixes this problem.

6.6. Nautilus default desktop selections have changed colors

In the process of fixing bug bug 82194, the way nautilus displays selected text on the desktop was changed; this makes all existing nautilus themes use the gtk selection color in this case. This may look like a bug but it is, in fact, a feature :) If the old behavior is still desired, the theme has to be fixed. For more on this, including how to fix themes to display the old behavior, see Federico's emails to nautilus list.