Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-25 Thread Bernd Kunze
I just downloaded 9.0 off mandrakes site and it looks ok. I'm tempted On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 18:16, Anthony Abby wrote: > >Unfortunately, even Mandrake's starting to slack off a bit in the "customer > >relations' department. Yeah, I see where you're coming from believe me, 8.0 > >is NOT all i

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-13 Thread Peter Boy
Am Son, 2002-10-13 um 05.24 schrieb Havoc Pennington: > > Peter Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > By the way: Are there plans to add to Metacity support for the third > > mouse button as in sawfish, which opens a pop up applications menu (same > > as the start button of the panel)? > > >

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
Peter Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > By the way: Are there plans to add to Metacity support for the third > mouse button as in sawfish, which opens a pop up applications menu (same > as the start button of the panel)? > As in Alt+F1? That's not really a window manager feature; if you want

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Peter Boy
Am Sam, 2002-10-12 um 17.59 schrieb Havoc Pennington: > There should not be a "break my UI" > button. That button worked very well in all prior versions of Gnome. It did not "break" my UI, but I could intentionally try different UIs / WMs and decide which one to use according to my working h

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
>Our intent is to appropriately compromise between different kinds of >users. > >Havoc But that's the rub of it isn't it. Many people question the appropriateness of changing KDE, or Gnome for that matter. It's probably a philosophical debate, in which case people have formulated opinions and

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
>Unfortunately, even Mandrake's starting to slack off a bit in the "customer >relations' department. Yeah, I see where you're coming from believe me, 8.0 >is NOT all it's cracked up to be, hell, half the stuff that's supposed to go >into menus doesn't any more, so I have to search where it was s

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
James Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:a > > Fair enough. Is there a date for when the facility will make it into > an update? It depends on how soon I can get it to work (I built new packages and they don't work for some reason), and how many security errata are clogging the QA pipeline. > So

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Tom Whiting
On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:55 am, Anthony Abby wrote: > >Same for me. However you can't stay at 7.3 forever with all the changes > >with gcc going on. > >So a bit of enlightment from RH's side about where the distro is heading > >would ease my > >headache. I believe that RH should generate a ne

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
>Same for me. However you can't stay at 7.3 forever with all the changes >with gcc going on. >So a bit of enlightment from RH's side about where the distro is heading >would ease my >headache. I believe that RH should generate a new sub-Personal distro >from the current >8.0 tree and call it mig

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Bernd Kunze
Same for me. However you can't stay at 7.3 forever with all the changes with gcc going on. So a bit of enlightment from RH's side about where the distro is heading would ease my headache. I believe that RH should generate a new sub-Personal distro from the current 8.0 tree and call it migration

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 12 Oct 102 07:15:09 EDT, Anthony Abby wrote: [snip] Date: Sat, 12 Oct 102 07:15:09 EDT ^^^ Not really, eh? ---| msg02396/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread Anthony Abby
No, I think you're pretty much right on, but why switch distros? Why not just retrograde back to 7.3, upgrade the kernel to the latest stable, and run up2date? I love KDE so I had a hige problem with what RH did in 8 and thought it was going to be too much work to restore a true KDE enviro

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-12 Thread James Jones
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Where "made more robust" means "made to work at all" ;-) Fair enough. Is there a date for when the facility will make it into an update? So far it seems that RedHat has tried to make 8.0 appeal to Windows users by removing choices and flexibility (no gnorpm, no kpac

Re: Gnome menu edit

2002-10-11 Thread Havoc Pennington
Ajit George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually the menu editing feature is in GNOME2 and has been for some > time. At the time RH was releasing it was being fixed up and made more > robust. Which is why RH didn't package it. If you check the upstream > versions of GNOME2 you'l