> > desktop is 0.10.3 from memory and a more recent one is available. The > > whole topic of software upgrades in linux is one that I really struggle > > with (piece of cake in windows)
It's a cake on Linux too if you manage to restrict yourself to the offerings of your $VENDOR. If you venture outside of that limit, things are trickier. They would be trickier on Redmond too, though perhaps not as much - if you stick to the reurgitated fare served to you via some auto-installer. There are maybe half a dozen versions of Redmond total, on Linux you have to count this per $VENDOR. That's the price you pay for diversity and virus protection. > I discovered that the SuSE 9.1 rpm for ethereal does not contain any > icons. I am not sure why, because when I compile ethereal on my gentoo > box the icons are installed (see my message last night). I count this as a packaging bug, though I leave reporting of same to the participants in this thread. > Does SuSE install icons via some generic icon package, or has it just > left the ethereal ones out? Both, by the looks of it. There is a wm-icons package, but it doesn't contain anything called ethereal. There are however two ethereal icons in the, sit down, samba-doc package, but they're part of the samba html documentation and these icons are not installed as "desktop icons". It is possible to install icons by just copying them into the right place. This can be done on the system as well as for each user. The directory structures are /opt/kde3/share/icons/ ~/.kde/share/icons/ for KDE, don't know (or much care) for gnome. Keep in mind that there is a directory per icon size, and another per icon scheme, i.e. you have different icon files per scheme and per size. You also need to persuade KDE to refresh its idea of what icons are available, the easiest (and most annoying) is to restart KDE, though opening a second login session helps a lot. No doubt there's a messaging command to cause a refresh as well, dunno how to work out what it is though. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
