Janyne Kizer wrote:
It's needed for login and apparently for the task manager as well. We have elected not to roll our own KDE.
What about kdm or the task manager uses it? I know Qt links it in by default and because of that kde will link with it, but it seems to me, especially if you're using an rpm based distribution, that this wouldn't be too difficult to overcome. You talk about "rolling your own" KDE, but I think you overstate it quite a bit. Especially for system administrators, why even bother to use open source software if all you want to do is use prepackaged stuff? "Tweaking" someone else's packages is extremely easy. I even covered it in the rpm presentation I gave a while back. (http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/presentations/rpm/)
I don't know what specifically uses it but when users on the effected terminals log in, they need to clear the error message with a mouse click (hitting Enter doesn't work) over 20 times before the desktop loads. That is not acceptable behavior. The errors don't stop there either.
I don't really care to debate it use of Gnome or KDE. That decision has been made. I am asking a question about Gnome.
One of the main things that we are still trying to resolve with Gnome is removing the "Known Applications" drop down list box from the Run menu and/or controlling what appears in that drop down list box. Any suggestions?
-- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services
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