it’s the little things …

like the dia­logue win­dow that unfurls itself from the cur­tain rail like some sort of dainty bal­le­rina. Pre­sum­ably some peo­ple like it — fair enough. I don’t, and would like to switch the effect off. Can I? Pos­si­bly. Is it pos­si­ble? Dunno. Where are the set­tings? Can’t find it. How much do I care? Not much. I’ve tried Gnome-3, and it’s not for me. xfce on the other hand …

Gnome 3

Ok, so you’re typ­ing, and want to use <tab> to help you on your jour­ney. You want to do an ‘ls’ on cer­tain files. You’re not sure what they are. You do ‘ls –l da’ then you hit TAB, because you want to see what’s there. It’s 2 TAB hits to get the auto­com­plete, but what’s this, on the FIRST tab hit, there’s a DING! Well thanks Gnome3. What the hell is that for. In what way, is you giv­ing me an ALERT on hit­ting tab, in any way, use­ful to me?