I was running RedHat 7.0 with Ximian Gnome 1.3 until last week. Last week I
upgraded to RedHat 7.1, which overwrote the Ximian Gnome with the standard
Gnome. They were roughly the same. Some minor differences in the Ximian
release that I liked better. I had to manually replace gnome-terminal after
the upgrade in order for it to work to work at all. Plus the old gnome
refused to reinstall under RH71.
The new (1.4) Gnome is a bit different. The thing you notice immediately is
that the height of the task bar on the bottom has decreased considerably.
It is now about the size of the Windoze bar. That makes the Desk Guide get
really small. The Desk Guide is also pushed all the way over to the right,
but that is easily corrected with a "move".
The next thing you will notice is that the menu bar and docked apps are
gone. You can still right-click and get menu, but the primary menus are
now a menu bar on the top of the screen where the docked apps also appear to
go. Programs, System and Help menus are there followed by 2 docked apps,
which are just icons. The first is a red star for Mozilla and the second is
gnome-terminal.
I am most impressed with the current version of Mozilla. They seem to have
struck an excellent balance between IE and Netscape, incorporating the best
features of both. I especially like being able to type Ctrl-F for find
instead of Alt-F. This release definitely seems geared toward the
cross-platform user, which is fine by me, as my time is split almost evenly
between Win98 and Gnome as my GUIs.
Also... Red Carpet already has a Redhat 7.1 channel and already shows
updates available for it.
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Warren Melnick
Director of Research and Development
Astata Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael R. Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome 1.4 works with RedHat 7.1
Questions for Warren: what were you using before this? If a previous
GNOME, has the layout really changed significantly? Or were you using a
non-GNOME desktop?
And, is Linuxconf really going away? Never used it much myself but I
can see the advantages for newbies; is it being replaced with something
else?
Werner Puschitz wrote:
>
> What I miss is a control panel kind of thing like KDE has started it.
> Personally I don't care a lot but (Windows) people here at work
> who are starting to use Linux are missing a central location where you can
> configure Linux. And with linuxconf going away...
>
> Werner
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Warren Melnick wrote:
>
> > I just installed the new Ximian Gnome 1.4 on my Redhat 7.1 system. It
is
> > working nicely.
> >
> > On a pretty quick P3 with a T1 internet connection it took me about an
hour
> > to download and install. It's going to take a little time to get used
to
> > the new setup, but I think I will like it once I am used toit :)
> >
> > ----------------
> > Warren Melnick
> > Director of Research and Development
> > Astata Corporation
> >
> >
> >
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