I'll just list them:
- spelling mistakes in the shared program menus:
- "Magnyfing glass" in Amusements|Toys should be "Magnifying Glass"
- "Backgroung" in Gnome|Settings|Desktop should be "Background"
- several broken links in the shared program menus, such as "DOS Emulator"
in Applications|Emulators; it seems as if some programs haven't even been
installed, yet they are in the menus
- the GNOME Theme Selector doesn't work at all. I click it in the GNOME
Configuration Tool and it just doesn't show anything in the window, save for
the Try, Revert, OK and Cancel buttons at the bottom. I would really like
to change my GNOME theme, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that.
- I was booting with GRUB fine for a while, and I really liked it. Then I
changed my LILO settings by accident one time in Linuxconf and now it boots
with LILO every time. I can't get back to booting with GRUB. It's really
annoying. I have no idea how to get GRUB back. I've checked Linuxconf
everywhere and DrakConf everywhere, and neither of them say anything about
GRUB. There should really be a configuration program for it, don't you
think?
- I can't turn off hard drive optimizations. I turned it on when I
installed cooker, just to see how it worked, and it doesn't seem to make
much of a difference, save for a few errors on the console about my IDE
hardware, so I really want to turn it off. As far as I can see, there's no
place in DrakConf to turn this off. Any idea where I can disable it?
- It's difficult to figure out where in DrakConf you can change your startup
runlevel from 3 to 5. I had it set to 3 at first, but then I wanted to
change it back to 5. I realized after much trouble that by clicking on the
DrakConf "X Configuration" button, sometimes it asks you the question "do
you want to start X on boot?" and so I chose yes and it changed the
runlevel. But this is really not obvious and hard to find.
- In general I find that system administration/configuration is really
fragmented and disorganized. DrakConf has a bunch of buttons just laid
about everywhere with no particular order. There are two RPM/packaging
programs (Kpackage and RPMDrake) that can be launched from DrakConf--why is
this? This is inconsistent and redundant. There really only should be one
that can be launched from DrakConf. As well, you have both an "X
Configuration" button and "Change X Resolution". There should only be one X
configuring tool! It makes no sense to have two buttons that do similar
things. It's confusing and silly. As well, some of the other buttons in
DrakConf are just launchers for parts of the Linuxconf program. Just leave
Linuxconf there and take the other buttons out. The administrator can go to
Linuxconf to all this, so why take up additional space in DrakConf if it's
unnecessary? I just find that there is a lot of redundancy in the program.
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