Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:45:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Stable Mailing List) Subject: Default gnome configuration Message-ID: <19990706014516.C389314FF0@hub.freebsd.org>
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I just this weekend put together 2 boxes for work. One was a FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE machine, and one was a RedHat 6.0 machine. Why 2 you ask? Let's just say that the windozze support people at work have discovered that there _might_ be something else ut there, and i wnated them to see both Linux, _and_ FreeBSD. But I digress. Here is what I find stange the RedHat box by default has a very nice gnome environemnt (assuming you like GUI tools). The FreeBSD machine had a pretty strange default gnome seup, even using afterstep, instead of Enlightenment as the default window manager. I was particulary suprised at this, given that the new 3.2 install program even offers you the choice of gnom as a default destop. Now I grant you if you _don't_ choose this you get a different window manager. Still it seems we may be missing the boat here for desktop/client machines. I believe that the gnome (or KDE) environment will be an important part of wining the desktop back. So, could we perahps build a little nicer set of defaults for gnome? -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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