A few general questions

[Len Philpot <len philpot org>]

I've started using gnome 1.2 recently and am starting to collect 
a few questions for which I can find no answers in the 
documentation, so I'll just shoot away in case anyone can help.


Is there any way to disable/turn off/whatever the automatic 
underlining and 'activation' (for lack of a better word) of URLs 
in gnome-terminal when the mouse pointer passes over them? This 
can be very distracting.


When adding launchers and/or drawers to the panel, is there a 
way to prevent the icon from being scaled up in size? This is a 
real problem with a launcher as they become HUGE and very nasty 
looking due to the bitmap scaling. I use a 17" monitor at 
1024x768 and any icon over about 1/4" square is too big for me. 
There's a pretty good collection of 16x16 icons, but once they 
get scaled up, they're UGLY. Even the 32x32 icons are left 
alone. I guess they're scaled to 48x48 (for what reason?)...


Related to the previous question, an even better solution would 
be NOT to use an icon at all, not even the resulting default 
icon. Text would be best. I'd love to have every icon replaced 
by a text-labeled button, but I doubt there's any way to do 
that. Any ideas?


Is there any way to get around the split personality of the 
panel menu: primarily owned by root, with only pieces here and 
there by the current user. I'd like to configure it so the 
current user can control _all_ the contents of the menu (as much 
as possible). Obviously he won't be able to run things to which 
he has no access, but control over the menu would be good.


And while I'm at it...  :)

This may be more appropriate in a Balsa forum; let me know if 
so. Why won't it (Balsa 1.1.1) even try to check for incoming 
mail on a remote POP3 server? I'm at home with a cable modem and 
no local mail, just internet. I can't get the POP3 mailbox to 
show up in the list and it steadfastly refuses to retrieve any 
mail from it, even when I _know_ there's mail there. No errors, 
just nothing. I have no other mailboxes defined at all. Any 
ideas?


Thanks for any help.

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