Kudos to Red Hat

[Travis Saling <trav u washington edu>]

I just installed Red Hat's beta 'null' yesterday, and the Gnome2 desktop 
they have put together seems really nice.  There are a few 
bugs/shortcomings - some of which may be Gnome2, and some just RedHat 
(it is a beta after all) - but it has a good and easy-to-use "look and 
feel" right out of the box.  I blew away my previous Gnome 1.4 stuff 
intentionally (after backing it up) because I wanted to see what they've 
been doing.

Some of the improvements are probably fixes in Gnome2 itself since 2.0.0 
(is it at 2.0.1 or 2.0.2 now?), but I hadn't been all that happy with my 
previous playing with Gnome2 using Garnome; which I assume is probably 
much closer to the default Gnome2 than this Red Hat beta is.

Really the only thing I felt I wanted to change was switching to a top 
"menu" panel instead of the default bottom panel; but I can see why the 
bottom panel is the default.  I'm sure there'll be some tweaking issues 
that will come up, but that's really not an issue for the majority 
target audience obviously.  I will say (not meaning to flame!) that the 
button order switch is still screwing me up, especially at logout - I 
keep getting the help dialog when I want to exit. ;-)

I feel a bit odd writing this from a Windows box, but my wife was just 
using the computer and I'm too lazy to reboot it right now. ;-)

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Travis Saling
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