I don't know if this has been corrected or not in Cooker, but I thought I'd mention it, just in case. Many of the problems I've encountered (such as the problems with update-menus and the UN-alphabetized arrangement of the Gnome menus) existed in LM 7.1 as well, so I hope to see this corrected before the next release. Immediately after installation, the Gnome desktop and menus are in complete chaos as compared to neat, orderly setup in KDE. It gives the general impression that great effort was made to make KDE look as nice as possible, but that Gnome is treated as an afterthought. While I understand that KDE is the default desktop for LM, I would like to see equal attention paid to make Gnome look nice as well. What I mean by this is, as soon as I boot up for the first time after a clean install and select Gnome, the desktop I'm presented with has icons scattered randomly around the desktop. In addition, I have the gnome "piston" icons for my printer -- is there no printer icons that you can find to use with Gnome? Also, the menu items in the Gnome menu are completely scattered at random. While KDE's menus are neatly alphabetized, the Gnome menu is not. MenuDrake, at least in its current incarnation, seems to be completely broken. Any item I try to add to my menus via MenuDrake never gets added -- this goes for ALL window manager menus, not just Gnome's. I have not been able to add items to the KDE menus either.. The only time an item gets added to my menus is when I add an RPM and update-menus runs automatically. Even then, though, some items, such as RealPlayer, never get added. The only way I've found to add an item to my Gnome menus was to install the Helix update and use gmenu. This too causes problems, however, because update-menus will then remove any items I add to my menus (it will also remove any menu icons I choose too). I eventually ended up having to rename update-menus so that it couldn't execute. To sum up, I'd like to be able to use MenuDrake not only to add items to my Gnome menus, but also to arrange my menu items in the order I choose. It's much easier to find the item I'm looking for if my menus are alphabetized. Thanks, Ray Swaim
