On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:10, Stephen Liu wrote: > The Gnome desktop including icons look identical to > KDE with K-Start(Redhat) on bottom menu-bar. With the Bluecurve theme (the default theme for both GNOME and KDE in RHL9, FC1 and FC2) that is the desired effect. Bluecurve is *meant* to make GNOME and KDE look the same. If you don't like it can you change it by going to Preferences -> Theme in the main menu and changing your theme to something else? If this is NOT the problem can you please try and put a screenshot somewhere so we can see what your problem is? > Gnome-Start(the big-foot) disppears including > gnome-applications, such as gedit, nautilus, etc. > They have to be started on terminal. I tried to add > them to the panel/menu but could not find them on > 'add-to-Panel'. It sounds like there is something wrong with your menu more than anything else. Did you look into rpm -V? You could try something like this: rpm -qa | grep gnome | xargs rpm -V -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================