Working with Linux on a PC 1620

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It's something to bear in mind, esp with video performance, although most of the rest of the machine's performance is tied to amount of RAM.

Possibly, it may have been removed-added recently, or it may be one of the few things that are only changeable in the gconf system directly (using gconfeditor or manually editing the config) Most of these cases, are for options that are deemed too "geeky" to waste space on the dialogs for.

I suspect that it may be unique to the PPC ones. The handling of the clock is different IIRC, from the x86 world, and that may be the root of it.

yeah, improvemets are always welcome :)

It would depend on exactly how Apple's patent is worded of course, I find shading quite adequate, but wished the directory would open, so I could select sub directories. Like I said, this used to be the case, prior to Apple's patent. Maybe Novell or IBM will challenge it.

and they can be previewed :)

I am a little unclear on what you mean by "set up the network so I could share folders"

More that it was designed *by* folks who tinker.

well, at least you don't have to deal with the rest of the redmonster :)

some folks will object to anything, and everything. That behaviour isn't limited to *.advocacy groups :)

There was some significant debate on the utility of spatial file browsing, and on limiting the dialogs as much as they were. Some folks, wanted to go the KDE route, of adding advanced settings tabs to things, rather than limit the choices of the user. Others took the position that an option used by 2% of the users, might be better off hidden from the rest.

The goal of GNOME, was to simplify the user experience as much as possible by "doing the right thing" out of the box as much as possible.

SAMBA works fine, within the limitations of the CIFS-SMB architecture, but it's not my preferred way, like Apple, Ubuntu (and I think GNOME in general) has gone to CUPS. Which I find far easier.

Odd, I can add a "Wastebasket" to the panel, but that may be a recent addition to Hoary, and not present in the LiveCD. Also, go to the home directory in the file browser (or anywhere, in the file browser) and trash, is listed under the "Places" menu.

Depends on how you install them. In much the same way that you can add non OSX apps to OSX. Does that mean that OSX doesn't come with only OSX style apps?

GNOME doesn't (yet) have great apps for all niches, there are places (like GIMP) were there is no GNOME equivilent. Firefox is not a GNOME app, but Epiphany is, and uses the std GNOME dialogs. Same rendering engine as Firefox, can use at least some of the same plugins. (Flash for one) but I typically use Firefox, because I like it better.

Out of curiousity, how does the save dialog on OSX look for Firefox?

MS-Office, OO and such fit my needs there to a T. (I use Gnumeric for spreadsheet duties, it rocks, and yes, it uses the GNOME dialogs :)

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