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Hello: My name Bill Silagi and using Red Hat 9.0 with gnome interface. I got this e-mail adds from a gnome book ("Teach yourself Gnome in 24 hours" Ha Ha Ha ..). Well, I tried to manipulate the Menu entries (add, delete, modify) as you can do in windows and adding launcher with non gnome applications just like you can run a DOS program on the windows desktop. I was less than successful and reading those obsolete gnome books and Linux Howtos (all the path's are wrong, the displays are completely different) I am totally confused. I could use the launcher to run non gnome program (ps -a -x) by typing the command konsole -noclose -e and it kept the window open (I found this out by accident). In KDE you can add menu items through the Panel setup but KDE has problems cannot set sound events, the modem setup is convoluted and other things too. I would prefer Gnome specially how Red Hat set it up all the important setup thing are one place (Start Here). I would be nice if a person could setup the menus according to his/her own taste just like windows. Can it be done and where can I get an up to date simple and practical literature without being a gnome or Linux programer ?. I can say the Linux graphical desktop is here be no literature giving information's above the basics. No "Tips and Tricks" like windows literature which is full of them see it at your magazine stand every month. The Linux (as Unix) magazines are full of keyboard pounding articles and some commands are thrown in so it looks like technical even today when the graphical interface is all over the place. I worked with windows long time and I know how helpful (but not always) to use graphics in complicated setups. Looks like Red Hat is almost is there (the most stable distribution and best setup because I tested all of them and lot of them out there asking money for something which is not working) but missing the desktop handling knowhows. I am looking for your answers if you have some.
Bill Silagi
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