On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:03:06, Ray Hogaboom wrote: >On Sun February 22 2004 5:53 pm, deedee wrote: >> >> Software packages removal shows every application (and the >> required dependencies) that you installed from an rpm (package) >> on your system. The overwhelming majority should not be removed. >> Unfortunately, it does not necessarily show programs you added >> from source. > >Is there a list somewhere of the overwhelming majority that should >not be removed.
What should and shouldn't be removed has a lot to do with your individual set up and what you want to do with your equipment. There is a section in RUTE on the typical directories set up for a Linux system and what kind of apps are in each directory. For an initial feeling about what you need and don't need, I would suggest reviewing that chapter. You'll find that /bin and /boot contain certain things (that you probably should not mess with), /home contains user stuff, and so forth. My advice would be to go with whatever Linux set up for you until you understand better what everything does. A lot of the file names meant nothing to me at first. However, after a while I have begun to recognize them and what they are doing. Although 600 sounds like a lot of apps, ms win actually installs many, many more than that. If something was installed from a package, there should be a description of it when you've called up Software Packages Removal in MCC. Using mc, you can view the contents of tarballs (files ending in .tar.gz and .tgz) and rpms. You can view directly from mc the contents of the readmes and other documentation in ascii that are in those rpms and tarballs (before you install the software). You can find out a lot about each thing that's on your system or you're thinking about putting on your system. >> I personally don't care for desktop icons (one of the things I >> hated with ms win), so I use several retractable child panels for >> apps I need a lot. The child panel apps are grouped by how I do >> my projects. > >I do not like a lot of icons on my desk top. In ms windows I have a >few for apps and files that are used a lot, used some for >remenders. I see them a lot so these items are not be forgotten. > >Retractable child panels I am not sure but these sound like what I >need. > >How are these setup? Precisely how to set them up depends on which desktop manager you're using (e.g., KDE, Gnome). However, in both cases you can start out by clicking on an empty place on the panel across the bottom, called kicker in KDE. You should then get a context-sensitive menu for adding and removing stuff on that panel. In addition, there will be either something for configuring the panel (which in KDE will allow you to create child panels) or for creating panels in Gnome. How the panels retract and pull out can be done in quite a few different ways. I generally leave a small handle with an arrow on it, but one can use focusing and other things to get them to appear and disappear. I like them because it makes it easy for me to organize my frequently used apps in the way that I use them (together), and I don't have to worry about covering the icons up and having a hard time accessing them when I have a lot of windows open. I can walk you through the process better once I know which desktop manager you're using. Let us know if you still can't figure it out after you play with it a bit. >I would need one for when I am working on eBay auctions. It would >start apps like a (WYSIWYG HTML editor) with 4 differnt web page >templates open, open a spread sheet, a picture editing program, FTP >App., and AuctionTamer (a multitab web browser with special >features for buying and selling item at many different internet >auction sites.) Basically, the child panel contains the icons (with the shortcuts) for the various apps you have added. As with a desktop icon, you click on the particular icon and it starts. Exactly what happens when you click on the icon is dependent on what you have that icon/shortcut configured to do. You can configure the same application a number of different ways if you need to regularly use it in a number of different ways. Strictly up to you. deedee --- Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
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