Re: Ximian Gnome 1.4 & RH 7.1

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>You know, the more I'm learning Gnome for this presentation, the LESS I'm
>liking it.
>WHAT program are your instructions involving.....

He is talking about "nautilus"

>I can't find "Diamond next to help" anywhere in Ximian Gnome.. I also
>can't fine any option for using smooth graphics...

The diamond (which looks red to me but I'm R/G color blind), is on the menu bar of the nautilus file manager.  If your desktop has very detailed icons (your home directory is a little english cottage) you are running Nautilus.  By double clicking on the home directory you should see a Nautilus file manager window.   Is the diamond icon in the menu bar?  

> OK I'd admit, I'm stupid about things at times, but at least I was able to
>figure out stuff in KDE.... Gnome is so damn hard to figure out and use!

It does have it's ideosyncracies.  Mostly I think the transition from GMC (Gnome Midnight Commander, the previous file manager) to Nautilus (the current file manager) was pre-mature.  They still provide GMC but there is NO OBVIOUS WAY to pick which one you want to use.  By default (I think) Ximian GNOME wants to use Nautilus  but, if you used GNOME previously, GMC still wants to start (at least on my box) and they get into a little tussle occasionally.  Also after logging in/out a couple of dozen times on diffrent displays Nautilus leaves dead processes hanging around.  While I *LIKE* using Nautilus I am seriously considering banishing it from by box.   GMC is fast, functional, and stable.

>P.S. Before I get flame mail to RTFM, I personally feel (being a programmer)
>that ANY program should be easy enough to use that one can figure it out
>WITHOUT having to read that fine manual. If I've got to waste my time
>reading a manual than what good is the program to me?

The diamond menu baffled me too.  What the bloody &$&^@)_@ possessed someone to use a diamond icon instead of simple menu name?!  I'm not a real big fan of tool trays, icons for everything,  but nothing really makes one suspect that THAT is a menu.  Now that eazel has bit the dust as a corporation I suspect Redhat, Ximian, and the like will aquire more control over Nautilus and exercise some of their conservatism.