Re: Gnewbie questions

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  1.  There are icons preinstalled on my desktop which launch
>          URLs (www.redhat.com, for example).  This behavior is much
>          like the Internet shortcuts available in Windoze, but:
>          How do I create my own?

You can drag the icon from the Netscape "location" bar into the
desktop.  Be sure not to touch any DnD destinations other than the
desktop on the way there; this is a bug in Motif and we cannot work
around it.  

Also, you can use the "New/URL Link" command from the desktop popup
menu.

>  BTW, is the archive of this email list available on the web
>  somewhere?  The list server's way of accessing the archive is
>  incredibly tedious:

http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/

  Federico