<quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
> 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.
Right click on the GNOME panel, choose "Add to Panel...", choose "System
Monitor".
> >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.
Hrm, you may not have the notification area on your panel (it's on by
default in Ubuntu, but not in Debian).
> I was hoping to be able to take advantage of Ubuntu's work and install
> Ubunut's GNOME 2.8 packages on my testting.
That's going to hurt. :-)
- Jeff
--
linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://lca2005.linux.org.au/
"It doesn't matter if it is good, it only matters if it rocks." -
Tenacious D, Rock Your Socks
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
