On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 11:54 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
it seems a reboot (after doing a system update) did the trick. Andwhen using KDE, gnome-control-center is not necessary. Both features are working with it having been removed.
You probably would have gotten the same result with just restarting X. My guess is that kcontrol would have handled it without gnome-control-center for reasons stated below.
gnome-control-center is just for changing the preferences. Once you've changed them it's not needed (till the next time you want to change them of course). The preferences are stored as XML files and loaded automatically by the Gnome subsystem, which *does* have to be running.
I'm not absolutely certain, but I understood that firefox is not a gnome app, just built with gtk+ (like a qt app that isn't full blown KDE). You don't need to load gnome to run firefox (or gtk+ based openoffice). You will need gnome to run evolution, though. -- Art Alexion Resources for Human Development, Inc. 215-951-0300 x3075 4700 Wissahickon Ave. art rhd org Philadelphia, PA 19144 www.rhd.org
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