Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 8.0

From: Frank Roberts - SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 19:51:10 EDT


I don't know I have only played with RH 8.0 for 20 minutes or so but judging
from my RH 7.3 system I just don't all the programs are there. It looks like
they did a real hatchet job on KDE.

Thanks

Frank

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 16:58, Aaron Steimle wrote:
> but not the program menu placement of all the programs.. it is gnome
> biased...( I really don't have a preference since I am new to both
> desktops..I am just stating what I notice from 7.x to 8.0). I guess this
> is RedHat's way of pushing people towards the gnome environment...( not
> sure if I agree with that) My real ignorance comes in here..I don't now how
> difficult it would be to set the program menu back to or customize it to
> the old or standard KDE environment.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin C. Messer" <marty@redhat.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 8.0
>
> > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:49, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > > The only point to the post regarding the new RH 8.0 GUI is that people
>
> should
>
> > > know before they buy it that it is not equivalent to RH 7.3 in
>
> appearance in
>
> > > anyway. If what you want is an equivalent appearance in your update -
>
> KDE or
>
> > > Gnome - then you are going to have to go to another distribution.
> >
> > Or take 30 seconds and change your desktop back to the standard GNOME
> > and KDE look. Bluecurve is more like a theme than a GNOME/KDE
> > replacement.
> >
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