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Well, maybe I have more learning to do but in KDE things just "seat together" - when I add a CPU monitor or Skype it just inserts itself to the Kicker panel whereas for Gnome it created its own window.
You might need to explain this better for me to understand. There's a System Monitor applet for the GNOME Panel (provided in gnome-applets); not sure
I suppose I'll have to learn the specific GNOME equivalents of the
programs I know in KDE (actually, I can't even remember the name of that
CPU monitor program, I just right-clicked the Kicker panel and added it, and it's part of my KDE session ever since).
I'll have to give GNOME a more earnest test.
about your Skype issue - does it provide a Kicker applet or a notification icon...?
Skype has this icon which tells you your on-line status ("on-line", "off-line", "busy" etc..) and you can click it to open the application's window. It seats in the kicker just like, e.g., the cpu monitor whereas under gnome it opened its own tiny window on the desktop.
You could try the latest Ubuntu or Gnoppix LiveCDs.
I'd like to try them on an existing debian testing. Booting to it from a CD then rebooting back to my permanent Debian installation won't be quite useful. At best it will let me get an impression of it.
GNOME 2.8 isn't available for Debian's testing branch. If you installed backports, you'd "taint" your install. The best way to test it would be to use a LiveCD or install a distro that did have it in another partition (you could use sid+experimental or Ubuntu).
I was hoping to be able to take advantage of Ubuntu's work and install Ubunut's GNOME 2.8 packages on my testting. I'll just wait with it a little longer. My current env is functional enough.
- Jeff
Thanks,
--Amos
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