Please Bryan comment on Cooker i'm not the Gnome Team.....
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Bryan Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah, but mdk needs to keep the helix-gnome packages compliant with > > helix-gnome. > > and cooker ?, we design an Operating System we don't ship only a > few desktop packages... > > > I then exited gnome, and fired up X again and sorry but it's just > > friggin nasty IMHO. Basically what I'm trying to get through this is, > > keeping helix-gnome raw, the way it comes, and only lil minute tweaks > > should be made. > > Suggestions are welcome, our Gnome team will be happy to discuss with > you about the choice they did. What's wrong with the default > configuration ? It's not particulary that default config, but I will comment on a few things. But first stability with compatibility : ) gnome icons on the desktop get chunked The reason for this is the gnome icons from helix aren't included(or is this the reason ?) so all the icons on the desktop get flipped to gnome-application-x-gnome-app-info.png So I go to change them............ And they won't change : ( there was an error about placement. So there seems to be a bug in one of two things. Your mc/gmc or there's just a compatibility problem between the helix-gnome config files in ~/ and your helix-gnome packages. This needs to be looked into futher though : ) Ok now on to the minute problems of the default config a.k.a. pretty graphics. This is IMHO, I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but well for one thing the icons that come with helix aren't included, which are quite nice IMHO. 2). I understand trying to promote mdk, but those mdk folders in the gnome menu and the logo in the helix-gnome splash screen are just tacky IMHO. Also might want to consider going with the new default helix theme, the theme name is 5 over here, or at least that's how it shows up in gnomecc and /usr/share/themes. Keep the helix icons for the gnome menu, they're completely destroyed and makes the menu look funky. My 4 last statements we're just rants, but the first one is a problem. You need to look at this from an end-users point of view. Rather, a user that has installed helix from helixcode and not mdk and is switching to mdk's packages. From my experience, people are gonna be highly pissed when a lot of they're pretty graphics(icon settings) are broke, as well desktop icons that don't seem to work at all. Give it some thought : ) Bryan Paxton
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