On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:58, Emilio wrote: > 1) The "new" desktop, that BlueSomething thing is the worst thing I ever > used, I > was so disenchanted with how the system has "degraded" that I am now using > Windows again after many years...
What part of the desktop, specifically, are you disappointed with? It's hard to imagine that the problem is BlueCurve, since that's just a visual theme that you can change. > 2) As usual from all the upgrades, the upgrade method completely breaks > down/destroys all the desktop URL shortcuts. After the upgrade you see > urlABXCY86xErer or something like that and the shortcut is useless. Were you using GMC before, as the file manager? Seems likely. With Naultilus, this shouldn't happen again. The format for those files should be stable now. > Same > thing happened in previous upgrades, every time I had to remove them and > recreate them if I new where they pointed to. Previously, gmc changed its metafile formats and desktop launcher formats a couple of times. Expect that not to happen now that gmc is no longer a part of GNOME. > 3) The "new" menu system of that blue thing is disappointing too. Can't find > anything as I used to in my previous Gnome/Sawfish thing. There is no > possibility > to select other window managers even though the RPMs for those are > installed? There's no GUI for that currently, no. > 4) It seems impossible to configure ANY of the SawFish window management > parameters. You're not running sawfish. Metacity is default, and most of the instructions for switching are a bit off. You should: Red Hat menu -> Extras -> Preferences -> Sessions -> Current Session Click Metacity Change "Style" to "Normal" Click Apply button Open terminal killall metacity ; sleep 1s ; (sawfish&)& > 5) Mozilla 1.0 STILL complains that it could not initialize the security > component, when are they (Mozilla) going to fix that??? has been appearing > for AGES. That was never a problem with Mozilla. You don't have the mozilla-psm package installed. The upgrade didn't put it in since you didn't have it beforehand, either. > 6) The "terminal" windows that now pop up are super huge, almost an > abomination! what happened to the good old, decent sized, fully configurable > terminal windows of RH7.3 ? You can still configure the font size of the terminals. > 7) APM is still broken. Dell laptop? Just curious. Mine is. Closing the lid doesn't work well, but hitting Fn+Esc (the keyboard Suspend combo) does. Your laptop may be similar. I don't know what the BIOS does differently, nor can I think of any reason for the BIOS do do anything differently between the two cases, but one works and the other doesn't. I blame crappy Dell hardware, myself. Linux seems considerably less stable on their hardware than on anything else I've used. > 8) Previously I was able to configure GDM to use "faces" that no longer > seems possible Red Hat menu -> System Settings -> Login Screen Set the Local Greeter to "Standard greeter" Go to the Standard Greeter tab and enable the "Show choosable user images (face browser)" option. > 9) What happened to the menu that appeared when clicking on the desktop > background area? now it brings up a useless menu. I want to be able to > change the window manager and theme to something more useful and more > tasteful than that BlueCurve abomination. Those options are in the RH menu -> Preferences > 10) Evolution seemed to hang endlessly during the import, in the end it did > not import anything, not even my Balsa/ELM mailbox.... Maybe Evolution 1.2 will work better for you. For me, it seems much worse. I'm torqued that the keymap got all switched around and made more difficult to use, and I'm considering Mozilla. There are other options; try them. What were you using before, and why would you quit now? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
