On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:07, Marc Williams wrote: > I think he's saying the same thing I was wondering. If RHN is out of > the equation, why do so many things seems to reference it? If I click > on my Alert icon, what pops up but a message alerting me to the fact > that I am not registered with RHN with a convenient button to do just > that. Canceling out of that leaves the main "Red Hat Network Alert > Notification Tool" telling me that the applet hasn't been able to access > a couple different sources. If I ignore that warning and go right into > the "Launch up2date" button, I am presented with the Red Hat Update > Agent screen telling me that this agent will assist me in updating my > software from the Red Hat Network. So far, that's three different > screens effectively telling me that I damn well better subscribe to RHN. > > But there's more. If I then hit the Forward button, the next screen > shows me the channels I've subscribed to and telling me that if I need > more information I'm supposed to visit https://rhn.redhat.com. Only > then am I through with all the screens telling about RHN and why I > should join. I finally understood this today when I left clicked on the button. I normally operate by right clicking and selecting a menu item. Daniel Veillard, the maintainer has realized the problem and says in a post to this list http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg00719.html that he will try to produce a fix for it this weekend. As you noted, if you persevere, it works, but it IS very confusing. This applet, although called the rhn-applet really has nothing to do with RHN in Fedora. It is really just the convenient mechanism for GUI access to up2date. Gerry
