Re: Sv: [Cooker] Mandrake's look feel
I think Mandrake has the best distro overall (why else would I be running it?), BUT they have the worst sense of graphic appeal... Everything Mandrake has either created (DrakX, DrakConf, Aurora), or recently re-branded (KDE2) works fine, but looks like a purple fisher price toy. -John Reddersen --- Zeljko Vukman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Mandrake's look feel is a serious question. I love Mandrake, and I would like to promote it here in Denmark. For your information, The Danish Ministry of Tehnology The Danish Government has lately discussed replacing Microsoft Windows in all public owned computers with Linux. If , for example, I want to promote Linux-Mandrake, as my favorite Linux distro (an I would love to do that) and show it to danish politicians (why not) the first thing they will notice is the new Mandrake's Helix-Gnome or Mandrake's KDE splash screens. Their conclusion would probably be: this is something childish, this is not a serious thing. Linux-Mandrake has to take care about this. KDE artist have had a lot of discussion lately about kde look feel. Also about chosing the right splash screen. We have to respect their desicion and their hard work. Regards, - Original Message - From: Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake's look feel On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2000,Zeljko Vukman wrote: I knew it. Now there is a new Mandrake's splash screen instead of original KDE splash screen (it happened before with Helix-Gnome splash screen). It is cute, my children like it, but I am 42 and I would like to have an option to choose which splash screen I will use when I start KDE. Original KDE splash screen is unfortunatelly removed from /usr/share/apps/ksplash. Please, if the next step is to remove all kde icons and replace them by Mandrake's icons tell us so we can make backup of our kde icons. Regards, Ohno! Please stop this Mandrake graffitti _now_. People at KDE _do_ have an eye for style and I consider it to be an affront to them to have their work spoilt this way. Is there no respect for intellectual property? Heheh, same distro that took redhat and put a different label on it - whaddya expect? HAHAHAHAH Sorry - had to say it, I love the distro though! = _ .,,__ /_ _/ (. .) / John Reddersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __ / /_oOO(_)OOo_ / "If at first you don't succeed, so much / / // / , / ' / | / /for skydiving!" -- unknown author/ \___/___/_/_/_|_/ /_/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
[Cooker] Latest KDE2 :(
I rsync'ed (using Ron's no_rsync.pl) last night and installed all the new stuff (I'm running Cooker) and boy did KDE2 take a step backwards in the latest release. Sorry I can't give the version, but I'm runinng in Win98 at the moment. Stuff that did work, but now doesn't: In the panel, half the beautiful new icons from the previous relase (Konqueror, etc..) are now gears and don't work, saying the applink they point to doesn't exist. Konqueror seems to have some serious caching issues. Especially on Yahoo Mail, stuff I've deleted shows up as a followed link, but if I click on it I go nowhere. The spinning gear in Konqueror doesn't spin, so it's hard to tell if any click really worked until the page loads... "Line up icons" in the Desktop Menu, doesn't... That's all I can remember at the moment.. -John Reddersen = _ .,,__ /_ _/ (. .) / John Reddersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __ / /_oOO(_)OOo_ / "If at first you don't succeed, so much / / // / , / ' / | / /for skydiving!" -- unknown author/ \___/___/_/_/_|_/ /_/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/
[Cooker] Cooker network install woes...
This is going to be a long and strange one... Two days ago I decided to do a network install of Cooker directly off RPMFIND's ftp site. Everything worked great, though it took a few tries on the mouse setup to get my USB IntelliMouse to work. So, after that install I had the following drive setup: 18GB Quantum Fireball IDE drive /hda1 - Windows98 (FAT32 ~7.5GB) /hda6 - Swap (128MB) /hda7 - /home (ext2 ~2GB) /hda8 - /usr (ext2 ~7GB) /hda9 - Stuff (FAT32 ~2GB) Yesterday I ran MandrakeUpdate to grab the latest updates. I'm mainly using Linux for play, so stability isn't a big issue. MandrakeUpdate complained about all the .rpms saying they weren't signed correctly, or GnuPG wasn't installed correctly, but I ignored them all and installed anyway. Everything seemed to work, though trying to Reboot from KDM hangs most times, so the drives don't get unmounted cleanly. But, when I tried to reboot back to Win98 through LILO it hung before saying "Booting Win98..."! I then tried my trusty Win98 boot floppy, also hangs at the same point. To make a long story shorter: Win98 HD - Hang! Win98 Boot Floppy - Hang! Win98 Boot Floppy with HD disabled in BIOS - OK?!?!?!, but no HD :( Linux Rescue Boot Floppy - OK Linux Install CD - OK Linux off HD - OK DOS Boot Floppy - OK, but no FAT32, so still no HD :( I could still see all the data on the Win98 drive through Linux, so I copied everything I wanted to save off to other various partitions. Then I deleted the /hda1 partition with PartitionMagic. Created a new FAT16 partition (only 2GB) and rebooted with Win98 floppy. Still Hangs! I've also tried "fdisk /mbr" to the boot drive, which removes LILO/GRUB quite nicely, but has no effect on my booting woes. I'm going to try reinstalling Win98 on the 2GB FAT16 partition and see what happens, but I'm not real hopeful. What in the heck could cause this?!? And more importantly, how do I fix it?!? -John Reddersen = _ .,,__ /_ _/ (. .) / John Reddersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __ / /_oOO(_)OOo_ / "If at first you don't succeed, so much / / // / , / ' / | / /for skydiving!" -- unknown author/ \___/___/_/_/_|_/ /_/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
[Cooker] MandrakeUpdate
I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate today. If I select a set of files to upgrade and click "Do Updates", it downloads the updates, says preparing to install, then then window closes and the rpm's are never installed! I finally figured out where MandrakeUpdate stores the rpm's as it downloads them, so I can at least install them manually without getting them again... -John Reddersen = _ .,,__ /_ _/ (. .) / John Reddersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __ / /_oOO(_)OOo_ / "If at first you don't succeed, so much / / // / , / ' / | / /for skydiving!" -- unknown author/ \___/___/_/_/_|_/ /_/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
[Cooker] Problems with MD5 sums on RPMFind's mirror
Some extra info on my problem with MandrakeUpdate not installing the packages. I started MandrakeUpdate from a shell instead of the icon, and it seems the MD5 sums on the packages off of RPMFIND aren't good. rpm tells me the same thing if I do an "rpm --checksig package.rpm". -John Reddersen = _ .,,__ /_ _/ (. .) / John Reddersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __ / /_oOO(_)OOo_ / "If at first you don't succeed, so much / / // / , / ' / | / /for skydiving!" -- unknown author/ \___/___/_/_/_|_/ /_/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
