Re: why I don't use gnome...

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

caught prodigy net (2001-01-05 at 1132.21 -0800):
> 1) Want it to be more mac like:
>    - menus on top. Mark apparently has solved this, but the solution is
> pushed until 2.0, which is a year away?

You will still have that problem with non GNOME apps, just for the
record.

>    - a better app lister (macintosh is better then windows in this
> regard, but we have multiple desktops, so design work is needed)

There is an applet that does that. Not in the main distro, but search
in http://freshmeat.net/ or any other searcher. And I have heard task
bar has changed in v 1.4 beta.
 
> The biggy:
> 
> 2) I cannot _not_ have the desktop managed by gnome.  This is bizarre, I
> can start up panel separetely, but I cannot start gnome-sesion without
> have a root app running.  I don't like having icon's on my desktop, I
> don't like having the mouse doing anything when I click off of any
> windows.  It's my space to not worry that I might click on something by
> accident.  It's windows 3.1 and unix history.  I'm very used to this, as
> I'm sure many others are and think that the root app thingy is a horrible
> application besides ("regenerate desktop icons?").  I think it's most
> useful application is to drag stuff there, but it's normally obscured
> anyway (I don't live in my file manager).

In GNOME 1.2: Control-Center / Session / Startup Programs. Then click
Browser Currently Running Programs, select gmc and change style to
Normal, then Remove (or kill it). After this Save Session so changes
become permanent. Is that what you want?

> ps - please cc me as I'm not currently subscribed.

Done.

GSR