Hi all, I like Fedora Core 2 very much. But a couple of things bug me and I thought that I'd see what the list thought. Lemme know if you agree or not. I am no expert with computers generally, or linux in particular, just a regular user. However I'm sure that fedora doesn't only target experts so some feedback from us people may be useful. I recently installed Mandrake 10 and when going back to Fedora Core 2 these things have become even more obvious. 1. Editing the menus. As far as I can make out in order to edit the menus, you have to edit the files in /usr/share/applications. Ok, fair enough, I have done this, but editing them manually and one by one is a real pain, and furthermore, it is annoying that the K Menu (I happen to use kde) gives me the impression that it will work and that I can play around with my menu. It saves it, but makes no difference ;). The only way I have succeeded in editing the menus has been by editing those .desktop files one by one. Perhaps this is a trade-off between usability and security, I don't know. But it sure is annoying. 2. Language Packaging In Mandrake they have rpms for the individual languages which allow you to install languages individually for the system, and best of all, for openoffice.org. That would be very nice in Fedora too. Perhaps the next release will do this. Generally I noticed that with two installations doing more or less the same things, one of Mandrake and one of Fedora, the latter has more bulky packages, resulting in much greater disk space after the installation. At the same time it is rather nice to have packages such as xine and mplayer. No doubt this was not possible in Fedora for reasons beyond someone's control. But I have to say that I found Mandrake slightly more polished from the point of view of usability. The configuration menus are very nice, and especially the package manager is easier to use. No doubt this is a question of what the aims of the distribution are, as has been mentioned in a couple of threads I saw in this list. But I suppose it's inevitable that these two distributions will be compared. I'll see what you people think. If replying, please reply all. many thanks, Matt
