Re: Are these "troubles" due to RedHat 8 or Gnome 2 ?

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

Alan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:01:31AM -0500, Paul E Johnson wrote:
>
> > I installed RH8 on a clean system and have some troubles. I have some 
> > config problems.  If these are due to the much discussed RedHat 
> > "improvements" and "simplifications", please let me know and I'll get 
> > Gnome some other way.
> >
> > 1. How do you choose a Window Manager? That choice is gone from the 
> > config setup.
>
>
> No normal user would ever want to do this, so there is no config option.

That is absolute crap.  Windows users change there desktop appearance 
all the time.  The more sophisticated Linux user wants more control not 
less.  There's nothing wrong with providing such functionality, even for 
the less techincally oriented.

My personal take on gnome 2 is, yes it's definitely less.  Works with 
fewer other wm, apparently by intention.  Fewer applets, applets have 
less options.

I'm an Enlightenment user and with gnome2, there's no longer 
compatibility, thus I'll be looking at dumping Gnome, rather then 
accepting the reduction in functionality.


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