Hi Darren, > Thanks for the screenshot. As I suspected, you are > not seeing "KDE" > icons, you are seeing the Bluecurve icon theme which > is the default in > RHL9, FC1 and FC2. Bluecurve is a metatheme, it > includes window manager > decorations, a widget theme and an icon theme, and > there are versions > for both GNOME and KDE. The default is for both > GNOME and KDE to use > Bluecurve. So there is nothing wrong with the icons > you are seeing. > > If you run gnome-theme-manager from a terminal you > can change the theme > to one of the default GNOME ones. (There was a bug > in FC2 where the menu > entry Preferences -> Theme was missing, but it was > fixed with an > update.) Noted with thanks. I can change theme without problem. I don't know how to add Gnome applications to the start-menu. I have been playing around without a solution. I have done this in many occasions on other distro including RH without problem. - snip - > As far as I can tell the only real problem you had > was that for some > reason your main menu was messed up (missing entries > for applications > you had installed). But after that rpm -Uvh --force > gnome* you did you > are probably in a much bigger mess. If you hadn't > done that we maybe > could have made some headway toward finding out what > the cause of the > problem with your main menu was. No, I haven't run rpm -Uvh --force gnome B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk