Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/27/05 23:49 CST: > Yeah, actually, when I installed GNOME today, none of the extra windows > open up new panel "windows". What happens when you open firefox? Do > you get the firefox icon or the mozilla icon? When I run fluxbox I get > a bunch of mozilla icons here and there when opening firefox or say the > Account Settings window in thunderbird. Maybe this really isn't an > issue. It helped for me, though.
One of the reasons I missed adding the .desktop stuff and some icons into /usr/share/wheretheygo is because KDE is *so* slick. Now, understand I am not trying promote KDE over GNOME. I like them both. However, KDE is much easier to install and in my opinion simply better. Everything works so well. Samba integration, et all. For example (why I'm writing this message), I didn't miss the icons and .desktop files because KDE has an automated menu addition option that scans your system for any new programs and will add it to the menu system. KDE-aware apps or not. For T-Bird and Firefox, it automatically added them to the menu, created the appropriate .desktop file (in ~/somewhere) and displays them on the menu with the appropriate icons. No need even for any existing .desktop files or icons, it creates them as it needs to. So, that said, I simply then used the right-click option to copy the menu option to my desktop (displayed with beautiful lizards wrapping the world and lizards wrapping a mail envelope icons) and they work perfectly. Not to mention that the panel displays them both with perfect descriptions and icons. KDE is so cool. Not sure why I spend the two or three weeks of my time updating the BLFS book to the new version of GNOME, every major update. I suppose because I enjoy it. And Gnome-Meeting rocks with a camera and a headset. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 23:55:01 up 147 days, 23:28, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.23 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
