Gnome/Sawfish desktop

[Keith Powell <keith keithg4jvx force9 co uk>]

I have been trying the Gnome/Sawfish desktop as an alternative to KDE, and it 
looks very promising. However, as a newby to Gnome, I haven't got very far 
and have now come to a halt!

Two questions, please, and my sincere apologies if the answers are either 
obvious or in the docs. If they are in the docs, I can't find them.

Firstly, how do I get shortcut icons on to the desktop in order to to run 
programs?  With KDE it's simply a right mouse click and select the "Link to 
Application" item on the menu which appears. With Gnome, I can find no way of 
doing it. I prefer icons to wading through menus, and on my KDE desktop I 
have a lot of icons linking to various things. I have searched all through 
the documentation and menus, plus trying with the mouse, but no luck.

Secondly, how do I mount the CDROM? Again I can find no way of putting a disk 
drive icon on the desktop. The menu which comes up after right clicking on 
the desktop only lists the floppy drive, not the CD. I have installed the 
drive applet, but that too only shows the floppy (with an error message about 
the fstab file). Editing the /etc/fstab file makes no difference (unless I am 
editing it incorrectly). The FSTAB manual doesn't help, neither does the 
applet manual. I wondered if the drive automounted when I inserted the disk, 
but it doesn't.

I am running SuSE 7.2 and Gnome 1.4 which is part of the distro.

Again, sorry if these problems are too basic. Until I can get past them, I 
can't use the gnome desktop.

Any help will be very gratefully received.

Many thanks

Keith