I think I must have started several posts this last month, but have never been bothered/had the time to finish them. I’m sick as at the moment with a cold; a cold in Summer is just plain wierd! So maybe this will give me a chance to look at something new.
I did try out Mandriva One the other day to check out the 2.5D window manager; Metisse. It was an interesting experience, and some of the features are very cool. However I was a bit frustrated as I spent almost an hour trying to figure out how to use the most touted ability of Metisse; window folding.
It made me feel quite dumb, as it is also supposed to be one of the more easy features to use. To add insult to injury Mandriva couldn’t configure my wireless device so I couldn’t check out the video on how to fold the windows. The network configuration tool (net_monitor) did offer to use NdisWrapper to configure the wireless card, but I wasn’t sure if I could take out the Mandriva One Live CD to insert the D-Link driver CD, so that idea fell on it’s head. Still the tool did look promising.
Looking at that folding video, it doesn’t look too hard. Maybe I’ll give it another try…
