Re: [issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread Di Gregory
> what hardware do you have that you can't use? > btw a great source of games is lokisoft www.lokisoft.com > they have a newsgroup for recommendations.. also there are lots of sites > that cover how to run common games in wine.. DVD, Winmodem (on my laptop) and on my desktop I have a CD-R and AF

Re: [issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread curious
> Windows just keeps pissing me off, and the sooner that I can use my > hardware and games with Linux the better. what hardware do you have that you can't use? btw a great source of games is lokisoft www.lokisoft.com they have a newsgroup for recommendations.. also there are lots of sites that

Re: [issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread Di Gregory
Personally this is what I want... Click on Start and have folders that open that say "Imaging", "Games", "office", "internet". Open up "internet" and see "Icq", "Netscape", "AIM", "WS_FTP"... etc. MS makes it EXTREMELY difficult to customize it how you want it. You can't get rid of the "Pro

Re: [issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread J B
I wish the start menu would work the same way, in such case (create a standard for those chevron thingeys)... if you use certain groups more often, move them to the top. It'd be somewhat irritating until it figured out your patterns of usage (and if different people use your computer for different

Re: [issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread Janus
At 12:30 AM 11/09/1999 -0800, you wrote: > > >Can you turn off the icon "moving" thing? I'd imagine if it were truly >customizable you would be able to... but you never know, sometimes >microsoft (and other software vendors) thinks things are "intuitive" but >they are just plain annoying (i.e. the

Re: [issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
J B wrote: > > Those chevrons and expandable menus are supposed to adapt to keep the most > commonly used items available. If you do not like it...you can disable it > from preferences. But if you notice, use on item that is not on the main > menu (under the chevrons), and the rest of the dropdo

[issues] Re:Ofc2K (was: micros~1 and apple)

1999-11-09 Thread J B
Outlook, to me, isn't very intuitive, *especially* some of the stuff they've done in the office 2000 version (speaking windows now)... click on "file" and you only get about half of the menu items, then when you hit the little "down arrow" at the bottom of the menu, things start appearing. They d