Re: Some questions and tips

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Sandeep Khanna">

> >>Also, How do I add more applications or general stuff to Gnome 2 , like 
> >>install an application and it shows up in the Gnome 2 menu?
> >
> >http://gnome.org/start/2.0/
> >
> It just mentions about Gnome 2 for different distributions. What about 
> Gnome 2 apps?

You install apps with your distribution's package manager. In terms of
adding other things to menus, there's a guide linked from the release notes
(see above link).

> >Are you asking why the preformance is better on your desktop, or on your
> >laptop?
> >
> Yes, My question is that why is the GUI performance in Linux so poor on 
> laptops as compared to desktops? And what more can be done to improve 
> it. My graphics card is Trident CyberBlade i7d with 8 Mb VRAM and I am 
> using the trident driver for X which is not accelerated and I do not 
> wish to pay for commercial accelerated drivers.

You have a crap video card on your laptop. With a good video card, you get
good drivers and speed.

> One thing I noted was that KDE 2.x with the latest Mandrake 8.2 is much
> much faster than it's previous releases and also faster than GNOME !!!

We're not too concerned.

- Jeff

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