On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:10, Steve Jeppesen wrote: > On 10 Jan 2003 14:53:41 +1100 > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Being that the Mandrake menu system - for all WM's installed - > > excluding XFCE - are all attempting to make it so that you don't have > > to edit menus, you MAY loose something there - but editing a menu > > ain't all that hard, is it guys? > > One or two, maybe 10 menu entries I can handle, but it wiped out > everything and replaced them with what it thought was supposed to be > there. > > I completely changed over to Fluxbox and Roxfiler now so I wouldn't > attempt it anyways.
In all honesty, I really hate the Mandrake menus - last install I did, I spent nearly two hours going through the menus for KDE, Gnome2, Enlightenment and WindowMaker to put them the way **I** like 'em - short, simple and to the point. Granted that a "noob" would want to see something more "Windows-ish", but for me, I can't stand all that clutter and wasted entry space. Even moreso, when I'm "really being productive" I sometimes do not use a window manager at all - nada - nothing. At those times I fire up Openwindows - lean, mean and ready for biz...and sometimes even less - I don't use a graphical system at all - just CTL-ALT-F1 through F10 - that gives me enough terms to live with... ...but overall, "noobs" like heaps of completely unnecessary and unwanted menu entries to "oogle" at - until they find Xterm and find out what doing "ls -CFa /usr/bin" is like - then "menus be damned" - (g). Once I get my voice recognition stuff working here, I might just chuck away the keyboard and moooose altogether - save a few extra address spaces and IRQ's to use for something better - like a USB self-powered tie-clasp temperature monitor, or a self-monitoring electronic goldfish bowl... -- Fri Jan 10 15:20:01 EST 2003 3:20pm up 1 day, 5:02, 5 users, load average: 0.24, 0.30, 0.39 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.2 BSD UNIX #57: Sun Jun 1 23:02:07 EDT 1986 You swing at the Sun. You miss. The Sun swings. He hits you with a 575MB disk! You read the 575MB disk. It is written in an alien tongue and cannot be read by your tired Sun-2 eyes. You throw the 575MB disk at the Sun. You hit! The Sun must repair your eyes. The Sun reads a scroll. He hits your 130MB disk! He has defeated the 130MB disk! The Sun reads a scroll. He hits your Ethernet board! He has defeated your Ethernet board! You read a scroll of "postpone until Monday at 9 AM". Everything goes dark... -- /etc/motd, cbosgd
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