[desktop-discuss] [osol-discuss] About CDE removing (In which Build?)

[Calum Benson]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:57 -0700, Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> > There is no schedule yet - at the moment individual pieces are starting
> > to be removed (sdtimage is out already, sdtaudiocontrol will probably
> > come out around the time OSS goes in), but there's still some dependencies
> > on other pieces that need to be cleared up first (moving the default login
> > from dtlogin to gdm, waiting for the new installer to remove the dependency
> > of the current installer on dtwm & dtterm, etc.).
> 
> And, hopefully, making GNOME configurable enough so that it can be made to
> be CDE-user friendly for those of us who think that (among other things) the
> concept of a "Launch" button is stupid (compared to CDE's right click on the
> desktop approach).

Feel free to write your own Nautilus plugin that adds whatever
functionality you like to the right-click desktop menu-- if it's good
enough we might even ship it :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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