[ltp] Mandrake 9.1
Frank Roberts - SOTL
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:28:39 -0500
Thanks that is a big help.
I was extremely scared that Md was going down the same path as RH.
Thanks
Frank
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 05:51, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:13, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> > There was a vague reference on the Mandrake site that Mandrake was
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> going the
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> > way of RH setting the GUI for both KDE and Gnome to have the same
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> appearance.
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> > Also if one looked at the package request this was a very hot item wi=
th
> > 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 some=
what
> > similar I prefer to immediately look at a screen and know where I am
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> at and
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> > what I am doing thus different screens appearances.
> >
> > What I was asking in short is will KDE and Gnome have the same
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> appearance and
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> > 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
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> http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/mandrake-9.1rc1-gnome-g=
alax
>y2.png
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> (I may have added the menu panel at the top myself, can't remember now =
=2E..)
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
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