-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 04:32:07PM -0500, Donald G Wilson Jr wrote: > I can not believe some of the suggestions that redhat is incompetent > because they did not provide a shortcut to this or that program on your > desktop.... That's funny, I don't remember anyone making any such suggestions... > And then to suggest they should offer different distros w/ diff > shortcuts for diff programs. this is the distro w/ a shortcut to gimp.. > this distro has a shortcut to xview.. this distro.. i think you see my > point. Well, I think it wouldn't be worth their time to implement such a thing, but I do understand where the poster of that idea was going... Much like they have an install option for servers or desktops, they could have one for newbies or advanced users. > anyways, to answer what i understand to be the original question: > > Right click your desktop > Left click "New Launcher" This actually does not answer the question, though it probably solves the OP's problem. The original question was (essentially) what happened to the task manager's ability to kill the applications in the task bar. This used to be functionality built into GNOME's task manager applet. Evidently, it's not there anymore. > PS - RedHat is doing many things right, No doubt about it, RH 8 is probably the best release of Red Hat to date. It has a lot going for it, and I think it may well be the best distribution available at the moment. > i do not know why some people insist on bashing them. one person > wants this, another that. Isn't that why half of us run this OS? I don't think anyone is bashing Red Hat. I (and others) voice my (our) opinion(s) about what could be done better, and why... that hardly constitutes bashing Red Hat. I like Red Hat, and I like Red Hat 8. I just happen to think they blew it in this particular case. If no one provided product feedback, there's little chance the product would improve... > No matter what they choose to do, some will get something they wanted, > some will loose something they wanted. Not necessarily. Sawfish has (or at least had) the ability to provide very simplistic configuration options to the user, while at the same time offering substantial flexibility for advanced users. This approach is often suggested by people who aren't satisfied with Metacity. Havoc Pennington (as I understand it, author of Metacity and Red Hat employee) and other GNOME developers usually make the argument that this increases code complexity and makes the code harder to manage. This may well be the case, but this argument has nothing to do with usability. It has to do with writing solid, modular code. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+C4aGHEnASN++rQIRApGRAJ4n7FzOlmM0D/Ck9tHNnOd4/yvQZgCfZk1v pVz7S687bV+O3sdmn7RMBgo= =ZGZW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
