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[nelson crynwr com]

Okay, I finally installed a bigger root disk so I could install
Gnome.  Looks pretty cool.  Couple of observations:

  o Network utilities are just wrappers around ping/traceroute, but why
    can't I select the output to put in the clipboard?  Network
    utilities has no menu bar, and has an exit button in the lower
    right.  I thought we were aiming for consistency?  When should a
    program have a menu bar, and when should it be a dialog box?

  o Someone else noted that when you right-click on something on the
    panel, the mouse is now over something.  Let go, and you just
    selected it.  Oops.  Yup, they were right, it's a lose.

  o Someone noted that the panel needs to be able to swallow the wm's
    pager.  Yup.  Also'd be nice to replace the clock with asclock.

  o I notice that combo boxes don't contain the current option when
    they pop up.  This is not good, because it means that you can't
    just set one thing in a dialog box.  It means that you have to set
    all your combo boxes to have the current thing, THEN you can make
    the simple change you wanted.  Ugh.

  o Panel configure dialog box has "Apply", and "Cancel".  This seems
    confusing to me.  What if I Apply the changes, then click Cancel.
    Do I get the original values back?

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