Re: New "extras" on this week's BSware.

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Sorry, forgot to mention these in the other email.
>>These are "extras" I added to BSware this week:
>>       6235367  mozilla-psm-0.8.1-3.i386.rpm
>>      13449863  mozilla-mail-0.8.1-3.i386.rpm
>>      23495396  mozilla-devel-0.8.1-3.i386.rpm
>>        826084  mozilla-chat-0.8.1-3.i386.rpm
>>      69361324  mozilla-0.8.1-3.i386.rpm
>>       2207330  gtm-0.4.9-1-rh7.i386.rpm
>>      28313517  xfce-3.8.1-1.i586.rpm
>>They are optional files in a separate directory, and they
>>do NOT effect the stock Redhat distribution at all.
>Go for Ximian dude!  Running Ximiam Gnome 1.4 now.

I'd like to report that even though I had to upgrade to XG1.4 by hand (lots of rpm -Uvh....) it still started and works perfectly,  which I didn't expect.  It isn't the stellar step forward in usability and performance that Helix GNOME was over GNOME, but what could be.  Performance is quite good,  many of the apps have a cleaner feel and more refined UI,  although it is hard to put a finger on exactly what changed.  In large part it seems to be font choice,  as text seems bolder, cleaner, and generally more legible.  Under HG I occasionally had panel applets exit stage left,  under XG14 I haven't lost one yet (must have logged in and out 50 times by now).  The file chooser widget is the most notable change,  with big buttons for Home, Document, and Desktop directories.  This should be a big win for new users and (IMHO) the file chooser widgets of UNIX applications typically *SUCK*.  The Document directory is automatically created and I'd guess is equivalent to "My Documents!
" used by the predominate M$-DOS GUI.  Having a way to jump to the desktop directory is big since XG like drag-n-drop and that is a hidden directory.