Hoary / Gnome 2.10 : worth it ?

[David M. Carney]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:52:29 +0100, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 14 février 2005 à 11:35 -0500, troutrou a écrit :
> >
> >Thanks. What the hell is "gnome-ui-properties", is it a key in gconf
> >(didn't find one), or a pacakage in Synpatic I must add (didn't find
> >one either ) ?
> 
> That's "Menus & Toolbars" in the preferences menu.
> 
> 
> >of the window being constant, when I look at the first tab, the two
> >control hardly fill the space, it looks "empty", a bit strange.
> 
> Just to point the difference:
> 
> warty: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=662
> hoary: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-10/images/gvm-full.png
> 
> 
> >happen to change the PCM setting quite a lot (wide variations in
> >amplitude I mean)
> 
> You can set the applet to change the PCM volume if you want.
> 
> 
> >If it were so simple :-/  I would happily stay with Warty, if all the
> >libraries and applications were updated/backported.
> 
> Why updating if you think that new applications are not an improvement ?
> 
> 
> >It has a few nice little improvements, but the menu issue is a real
> >turn off.
> 
> I don't think so. The new menu is using the freedesktop specifications
> which is a great improvement. The new layout is better too. You can add
> a debian or whatever xdg menu in a very easy way. An another advantage
> of using a standard is that you can whatever freedesktop menu editor to
> edit the menu (ie: the xfce one).
> 
> 
> >But I feel we will have to wait for the next version (is that 2.12 or
> >3.0 ?) to really have a reason to update. Obviously for people using
> >2.4 or 2.6, 2.10 is interesting. But when using 2.8, I am not sure...
> 
> A lot of people are happy with all the improvements in GNOME 2.10, feel
> free to disagree, I'll not discuss this for hours.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sebastien Bacher
> 
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I like the Debian menu, but I have a few KDE packages on my system.

Is there a way to get rid of the KDE entries I don't want, such as the
Control (Kontrol??) Center?

David

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