[Fedora-desktop-list] changing Gnome panel buttons

Kevin Francis kevin at loose-screws.com
Thu Nov 20 14:24:14 UTC 2003


i agree. leave the terminal be. 2 seconds isn't going to change anyones 
impression. having a direct link to a terminal will however change my 
brothers impression of his desktop ( he's a windows user ) to "techy".

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Kevin Francis
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Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 13:26, Kreg Steppe wrote:
> 
>>I think that since Fedora isn't geared towards Home users any longer, 
>>but towards enthusiasts, and the like, I think that maybe there could be 
>>a little re-engineering of the defaults. I for one, the first thing that 
>>I do, is pull that icon right to my panel.
>>
> 
> 
> I'm not sure the idea of Fedora is only command line or old-school unix
> people though; rather early adopters, people willing to try new things.
> I feel like as developers of the desktop part of the OS, we should maybe
> try to dogfood and avoid the command line as much as possible. Though
> I'm not the best at this myself.
> 
> My feeling on terminal on the panel has always been that it takes
> approximately 2 seconds to add the icon, so I haven't ever understood
> why people feel it's so important to have there by default.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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