After very recent updates the whole Applications->Preferences menu just vanished and together with it all entries for configuring such details like fonts and how they are rendered, keyboard layout and shortcuts, how menus and windows and mouse behave, network proxy settings, options for removable media, screensaver, themes, you name it. All the basic stuff. It is true that something called Applications->Other showed up and which covers stuff which really only root should ever see. There is also something new named Desktop->Preferences wasting together with new "Places" more of a valuable space on a panel. None of the things mentioned above show up there. There are some _extremely_ important things in this submenu like "Login Photo". And there is something called "Mail Transport Agent Switcher" which shows up even if you have only _one_ MTA installed and there is nothing really to switch. But assuming that you have at least two MTAs it will indeed switch. Moreover it will do to that from a non-root account and without asking for any passwords. Truly amazing! I am not sure how it does that; it does not seem to be something obvious like "suid root" somewhere, at least not where you would look, but this does happen. Links in system directories do change. Now every Dick and Harry can randomly mess, at any moment, with yours carefuly crafted and configured mail setup. A barrel of fun. If you happen to have two MTAs installed this must be, obviously, to provide some entertainment. Is all the above just unfinished yet a version transition or some kind of an elaborate joke? If this is a joke then I do not get it. Michal