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i tried it, hated it instantly and exterminated it. it is irritating, user-unfriendly and not intuitive at all. thus, it will never again be on my box. that was imho the worst thing, the gnome-team could do to its otherwise beautiful desktop. it was the last nail in the coffin for me to kick gnome altogether and stick with kde.

excellent point. and there should be more folders. suse e.g. has by default a document, one pictures and one video folder in /home. this is very useful. also, there could be an icon in the kicker, linking to these folders (like suse has). as you can see on my screenshot, the panel is at 38 pixels. thus, the icons are bigger but not as much space is wasted as with the "normal" mode. to darkelve: yes, the icons in the kicker can be aligned in any other way, thus eliminating the "gap". it was all just made in a hurry, so i didn't take the time to align them properly... call me lazy... ;) edit: just a question: maybe the nuvola iconset is of better use than the crystal? i think it even has more icons than everaldos icon set. i will work on my desktop idea and add further screenies. :)

no, because then, sco would be sooooo rich... it must be the other way round. sco paid gates for his propaganda against linux and now, gates has all the money, sits comfortably in honolulu, watching girls dancing in front of him (the girls are blind btw, otherwise they would get blind immediatly ;)... oh man... gates is ugly... ) while sco has no money left to run their business. so... gates won't give the money back. with that lot of money he has, he can afford dozens of lawyers who will crush sco. as linux-companies are not yet as rich as microsoft is, sco tries to get the money back by sueing linux-companies. it is easier. and it serves their ultimate goal: to afford more lawyers than microsoft can and thus get their money back in a trial. ... :unsure: there is still one mayor problem... the sco-guys are less intelligent than potatoes. :lol:

okay, here goes my opinion. the important thing is the very first look of a desktop. for corporations, it should be clean, fast, intuitive. yes, the current desktop layout is in the riht direction, but some things are bad, so here come my ideas for further improvement: 1. it is too blue. nothing against blue as a color, but the type of blue for mdk10 was too bright. this color #506294 would be much more eye-friendly for a background image. and the wallpaper is not beautiful at all. it looks as if mandrake never got past the c-64 times of the deep 80's. just look at kde-look.org. there are mandrake wallpapers that do look 100 times better and are suitable for business desktops. 2. the mandrake windeco-style is also by default too blue. blue on blue... how silly. give it another, maybe good contrasting color. and don't use the round buttons, they are very unfriendly for older people. i heard several times that the buttons of that design are too small. the square button version was much better. and talking of buttons: add some space between the maximize/minimize and the close button. thus a back click can be avoided. (very important for a business desktop imho) and: please change the font at the top of the windeco. make it bold and get rid of that unnecessary shadow effect. 3. the mandrake bookmarks should be grouped together in a folder and they should NOT be in every browser-window. that wastes space and... come on... who is clicking on the mandrake bookmarks day after day? especially in business or at university? better put some USEFUL bookmarks or bookmark-folders there. 4. buttons on the kicker-bar: i doubt that the console button is of any big value for a business desktop. could be removed imho. the k-menu-star: why does it have this ugly color in the background? why didn't they keep the kmenu-icon the way it was, using the original k-menu-icon and not this irritating star? a first time user might think that this star-button is a bookmark to mandrake. change it to the good old button again. please. and add some space between the menu-button and the other ones. also, i would suggest, adding buttons for spreadsheets, presentations and kontact there (nobody will try the kontact-linking on the right side ... only by incident). addendum: i have uploaded a picture, showing my ideas in the "show off your desktop" thread, if you are interested. link is here: (and yes, there seems to be a bug on the coloring of the konq-window...) http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?act=Att...ype=post&id=950

agreed. it looks as if your cd is a bad burn or incomplete. check the md5 sum. when burning a new cd, don't burn it at the highest speed but something slower (e.g. x12), thus reducing the risk of a bad burn. note: here is some info about ldconfig, if you accidently want to know what it is about/what it is good for. http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/ldconfig.8.html

the menu entry will only be created with rpms. if you compile gimp by yourself, you have to add the menu-entry manually (e.g. with menudrake). the executable file should be located in /usr/share/<gimpfoldername>. :)

well, murzilla, the package stuff is not so dramatic. you can add all media with urpmi. just go to easyurpmi http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up your system (you seem to have mdk10 CE but you can set it up as mdk10 OE in easyurpmi). once you have all mirrors set up, you can grab the relevant packages the following way: open a console (like xterm or konsole or ... they do have a black monitor icon in kde and gnome, otherwise, head in menut to -> system -> terminals and select one console), log in as root (type su, then password) type urpmi <packagename> urpmi will take care of the dependencies. :)

oooh... i thought the install went on although the package didn't load. then try the following. do a minimal install, using only system relevant packages. every additional software can be installed afterwards. if that works, then you can enter the console from any desktop environment (blackbox, icewm, kde, ...). tell us how you get along. once your install is completed, we will watch for the other stuff. if you install still breaks then your cd is probably a bad burn. just keep us informed. good luck

use partitionmagic. make the partition in fat32 format, thus, both systems can read and write on that partition.

try to start it as root using a console, typing e.g. oowriter. if it doesn't work it will tell us at least, why it won't open. reinstalling mdk is simple. just insert the cds at booting once again and do a clean install. ;)

it would be helpful, if you tell us, what is so slow in your kde and which apps hang up. maybe this can be fixed in sonem minutes. :)

hmm.. i am not an expert, but i think you are simply missing some c-compiler devel-packages. check your devel-package selection in mcc and add them via urpmi.

hi ho! :) well, easy cd-creator is the right tool for this job. the file you got was a cd-image. so in easy cd-creator, select from the menu that you want to write an image-cd, then select the iso-format and start burning. once the cd is finished, logg off, restart your comp with booting from cd enabled and insert the cd in the bootdrive. the linux-distro will load automatically and it will not write anything on your harddrive. have fun with exploring mandrake. if you still have problems, post them, we will gladly answer. :D

hi, cyberlinux and welcome aboard. :) the package you refer to is not a critical package, your computer will work without it. as your cd-rom package won't load, i suggest you install the package via urpmi. open a console, log in as root (type "su" then enter password) and type "urpmi <packagename>". if urpmi says "no packages" then maybe you have to set up some mirrors first. this can be done via easyurpmi. (http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php)

okay boys, who of you(!)* will build the rpms? :lol: *= i won't do it. on my comp it would take years... i guess...

hi axel and welcome aboard. :) before you start installing, you might check out the FAQ section of this board. there are many hints that will perhaps answer some of the questions you might have. with every other problem and detail about linux, feel free to post your questions in here. we are a patient group of linux-users and will surely help you as good as we can. and we all were once newbies. ;)

well, i doubt that the updating of packages will destroy/change your individual settings. i also updated my packages (also over 200 mb) and every single "individual" configuration that i have made was not touched/changed. everything works fine. whe you update, it will surely ask you a lot about "blahblah, wrong signature, wanna install anyway?". i installed all rpms nonetheless, haven't had any problems since. the only annoying thing is the time it takes... between 30 and 60 minutes with adsl-connection (depending on server-speed of course).

hi, zach and welcome aboard. :) there can be several reasons why your computer freezes. it can be the nvidia-graphics-driver but i think that the probable cause is a bad ram. thus, here are my questions: did/do you experience this problem only with mandrake? did it run properly on another linux-distro (you can try e.g. knoppix, mepis or other live-cds for this) or in windows? if no, you have with 90% certainty a bad ram. if yes, the problem should be your nvidia-driver. there are several topics on nvidia in this forum, so use the search function, maybe one posting is exactly like your problem and can be solved in the same way. if you don't find anything useful, post further informaton on your computer here (detailed hardware configuration if possible) and the community will be able to help you (at least i hope so). good luck! :)

if you need packages, just head to "easyurpmi", where you can set up mirrors. you can add blender via urpmi in the console then and it should handle the dependencies by itself. if you want to use the sources in order to have a "perfectly suited blender" for youself, i suggest to build an rpm with the sources and install that one. but you will still need to add the other library-packages via urpmi. so urpmi blender is the easiest way. ;)

well, if you have partition magic, it is very simple and you can't really mess up your system. every step can be moved backwards again. actually, i don't have pmagic8 in front of me right now, but i used it to set up my hd then for my first linux-install. so i will try to give you some hints. as you can see on pmagic, you have a nice graphical ui for partitioning. you select your hd and select "add partition". this partition should be placed behind the win partition. give it a minimum of ~6 gb. then add in this ~6 gb partition at the beginning another small partition (500 mb or so) which will be the /boot partition for linux. then add another 1 gb partition at the end of the 6bg partition. this will be the swap-file partition. next thing you have to do is to define the format of your partitions. partitionmagic provides you with a format selection. i recommend to make the /boot ext2 or ext3, the rest "linux reiserFS" (if it is available, don't remember), otherwise "linux ext3". the swap will be set to "linux-swap". now, select "done" and let pmagic take over. any files that are on the intended linux-partitions will be moved to another partition (that is to the win-partition) without data loss. reformatting the drive will take ... dunno... depends on your comp, but it can take up several hours. once all this is done, you can reboot your comp and start installing mandrake. when installing mandrake, select "manually select partitions" and you will see your newly created partitions. so set the small boot partition to "/boot", the swap to "/swap" and the rest to "/" and select for the "/" reiserFS and for the "/boot" ext3 (just to make sure that everything will be fine). then relax, let mdk format these drives and go on with the rest of your installation. good luck.

please post your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. did you experience the same problem with another operating-system or other linux-distro (just in case you have tested some others) or does this only happen in mandrake?

mhm... as i thought, the font setting got changed... but the question is: which damn font was it that was so wide that a desktop gets "unusable"? and who designs such a freaky font??? :lol:

jesus!!!! :o well, open the konsole and log in as root (typing su then password). then type XFdrake and you will see the display settings and if something got screwed up there, so take a close look at it. also try opening the k-control center (i hope you can do so) and try using another font. maybe it is some font-iso-stuff that is causing you this trouble, but i must admit, i have never seen something that strange in all my life. so, we have to experiment to find a solution. :P i wish you (us?) good luck nonetheless.

i don`t think that there is any way to correct this konqueror-bug other than updating kde. i am sure that this rather annoying bug will be gone in kde 3.3, which will be released soon. if anyone knows another trick, feel free to post it. i am waiting. ;)

hi, cgl. :) maybe, we can fix it... first of all, how did you set up your updating mirrors? where did you grab from? did you use easyurpmi (do you even know of easyurpmi?)? are you using mdk10ce or oe? can you make a snapshot with ksnapshot? try and post the result it here if possible. maybe it is only your gui that got a bit "irritated". what happens, if you open XFdrake in console? what settings do you have?, what information does mcc give you about your graphics system (graphics-card details please)?