[ltp] Mandrake 9.1

[Buchan Milne]

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Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:13, Buchan Milne wrote:

> There was a vague reference on the Mandrake site that Mandrake was
going the
> way of RH setting the GUI for both KDE and Gnome to have the same
appearance.
>
> Also if one looked at the package request this was a very hot item with
> numerous request for KDE and Gnome to have the same screen.

Oh, so you mean panel/menus being identical? No.

>
> This is something I strongly detest although I prefer them to be somewhat
> similar I prefer to immediately look at a screen and know where I am
at and
> what I am doing thus different screens appearances.
>
> What I was asking in short is will KDE and Gnome have the same
appearance and
> if so will one be able to modify this appearance easily.

GNOME still looks like GNOME, KDE still looks like KDE. The default
icons for each environment are still kept (GNOME stock icons vs Crystal).

Here is a screenshot of GNOME as it was more or less by default on
9.1RC1, it's mainly the same in RC2

http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/mandrake-9.1rc1-gnome-galaxy2.png

(I may have added the menu panel at the top myself, can't remember now ...)

Regards,
Buchan

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