[KLUG Members] More RH8.0 impressions

Bruce Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
18 Oct 2002 13:43:11 -0400


> >>>5. I miss Galeon, and this mozilla is too old to install it.  That is
> >>>disappointing.  I'm off to fight a small war with RPM....
> >>Galeon doesn't install by default, but it is on the RH 8 CD's.
> 
> Ok, I went and found it.  Installed,  but setting web-browser to galeon
> in prefferred-applications didn't make it come up when I clicked
> web-browser.  I still got mozilla.  So whats the point?  Galeon starts
> from the galeon icon just fine.

Yup, I have the same problem here.  At least when I click a link in
evolution, it starts Galeon.

> >>Applications need to drop a file into a directory somewhere so they show
> >>up on the menus.  Hopefully they'll all do that in the near future.
> 
> Yep...
> 
> /usr/share/applications/vncviewer.desktop
> 
> And it is on the desktop/menu where?

I have no idea how it works.  I have some packages that drop a file
somewhere under /usr/share/gnome/apps/ and they show up:

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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