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The time has come to switch to Gnome for various very sound reasons. But in particular it is being planned as the preferred Desktop for UserLinux.
I've customised it, so all the vital time wasting is now one click away (i.e. GNU Chess in Xboard, and the Free Internet Chess Server in Xboard, SCID - Shane's Chess Database app).
Just found "gnome-utils", so I now have a "Kdict" substitute on my tool bar, even if it doesn't appear to lookup the word in the X clip board so it is one extra middle mouse button click to look something up. Oh and with my giant fonts the Gnome dict applet looks ugly as well till I shrink the bar by 4 points.
I've lots of other new and fun panel apps, but a few things aren't obvious. Before I waste too much time figuring them out, I thought I'd ask....
Q1) I think I inherited some of my KDE menus - what the the GNOME menu editor called. i.e. How do I remove the "KDE Help" menu item.
Q2) The Debian menus seem to have a few GNOME applications well buried that probably ought to be at the top - some GNOME fanactic couldn't send me a screen shot (I like the screen-shot applet) of the basic menus, and any tips on what Debian package might be missing in this regard.
Q3) I have a couple of applications (Guarddog for one) that I want to lauch as root (including perhaps the GNOME log viewer). KDE makes this easy, as it just knows about them (deep voodoo) and prompts for the root password when I click the relevant Icon. Under GNOME I am going to have to tell it what user I suspect, do I use "GTsu" for this or some other similar tool. Can I make an icon with the application name (and Path of course) included so it is one click and the root password away? (Without using scripts, or creating more SUID bits, this is a GUI after all)
Q4) Editing lauchers doesn't let me edit the name of the program executed. I found the place where you can choose what is displayed on the properties dialogue once, but can't remember where I found it.
Q5) What is needed to allow more than XML data sources in the GNOME data source applet? i.e. I assume I should be able to specify Postgres here as a data source? Looks like a missing package.
Q6) One I ought to know an answer to - but whilst the weather applet tells me the current(ish) weather in Exeter (saves turning my head 90 degree left, plus moving curtain as required), "Forecast" just says "Met Office Forecast" surely some mistake?!?
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