Re: Gnome advocay help/advice

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Also, if there is any chance of doing custom GUI programs, grab a copy of
glade and show him how libglade can be used to modify interfaces without
recompiles by modifying the gnumeric print dialog for instance.  That
might impress him.

James.

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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Ali Abdin wrote:

> Well, if I were you I'd also show the most polished program of GNOME - 
> Gnumeric. 
> Also show him the Gtk+ themes option to impress him (from 
> control-center)...
> hrmmm, what else can you do - Show him how easi it is to set mime-types, 
> you could show this by associating the .rpm extension for installation...
> Oh yeah, you might wanna show 'gnorpm' and 'gdm2' - with gdm you can show 
> him the 'Face Browser' which I think is really cool...
> Perhaps also showing him the 'activity' of the GNOME project itself 
> showing that bugs are rapidly fixed and released are made very promptly.
> You could also demo all the cool little applets and show all their neat 
> functionality.
> 
> On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Paul G Cooper wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I've been granted an audience with a big cheese sysadmin in the uni to
> > demo gnome, hopefully to persuede him to add it to our systems as an
> > alternative to cde (on solaris).
> > 
> > The demo will be on a RH 6.0 x86 machine and I guess it will be best to
> > use the 1.0.50 beta rether than the stock RH setup. 
> > 
> > Anyway if anyone has any idea for nifty features or neat arguments that I
> > could show / use to impress then please mail me personally. Things I was
> > thinking;
> > 
> > panel - adaptability
> > pager/tasklist
> > gmc - files + apps + urls on desktop
> > gnome-pim
> > wm independence (will  use E and sawmill)
> > control-center
> > 
> > Thanks for your help
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > 
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