Re: RH 8.0 & Gnome

[Andrew Sobala <andrew sobala net>]

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> I just installed RH 8.0, and I'm curious about this new "Bluecurve" theme.
> Am I actually using Gnome 2.0?  What I would like to do is get to a more
> "standard" Gnome look, like I'm used to with Gnome 1.4.

It is GNOME 2.0, despite some things the slashdot crowd would say.
Bluecurve is just a theme. To get rid of it, go Desktop Preferences ->
Theme and change to the default. You can get the standard GNOME icons by
opening gconf-editor, and changing the
desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme preference to "gnome". There is also
an apps/metacity/general/theme preference for changing the window
manager theme, but you probably only have Bluecurve and Atlanta
installed - and IMHO Atlanta is horrendous :-)

The default Redhat panel configuration is different to the GNOME default
- we have a menu panel at the top of the screen, and no panel at the
bottom. Personally, I prefer a highly customised Redhat layout to the
GNOME default, but this is really just a matter of adding a menu panel
and deleting the redhat one if you want to get the GNOME defaults.

> More specifically,
> the menu is irritatingly bloated with menus, submenus, and duplicate
> entries.  

Not sure what the problem is, especially with duplicate entries, but
maybe someone else can help.

> 
> I'm sure this is simply a matter of installing new themes, right?

Yes, you can install new themes as well. The default theme is included,
though.

-- 
Andrew

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