On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > > Yup I know that's window-manager independent. But what I was trying to > ask was I can't get the cute "taskbar" to appear on my desktop. Is that a > "taskbar"? It's my 1st time running gnome. >
It's not a taskbar, but it's everything else! :-) Someday maybe it will be a taskbar. Right now it is basically a launcher to run programs. You can use it in either start-menu style (a menu of stuff to launch) or icon-style (icons you single-click to launch programs). Or both. It also swallows applications and has applets that do various little things. For example there's a CPU load applet, and a desktop pager applet if your window manager supports it, and some fun applets like Wanda the fish and a sliding tiles game. The latest version to be released this week has several different modes, one spans the whole screen, one shrinks to fit the contained applets. You can have as many panels as you want and you can have panels that fold into other panels ("drawers"). You can end up with a panel full of panels that themselves contain panels etc. until you run out of screen space - compeletely useless, but pretty fun. Havoc -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null