On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:45 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sun January 28 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Oh, right. Now I recall later RHL or early FC releases had a "Start Here" > > icon on the desktop. Opening it opened a window with the system-config-* > > menu entries. There was a corresponding menu entry that would open the > > same window. > > > > I guess Rahul has explained where it went and what its possible future is. > > > > Apparently, I'm not the only one who misunderstood what you were looking > > for, though. > > Actually, Matthew, you're still not getting the right item. I have it right > here on my desktop, recommended to me by Rahul many months ago. It's a single > click menu-item, "System Control Center" it's called in the version I've got. > It does just what Ric has been describing - it doesn't open a window with > menu entries. It opens a GUI with icons and tabs; each tab window has a > subset of buttons with icons and text for each of the system-config utilities > you have installed. I thought it was broken on this box but it turns out it's > not - I have it open here as I'm typing. The seven tabs are > labelled 'Software' 'Hardware' 'System' 'Network' 'Server' 'Securities and > Users' and 'Misc' - there are a total of 31 buttons on the various tab pages > corresponding to the system-config and some other utilities installed on my > system - clicking on a button opens a separate GUI corresponding to the > function you selected. Thank you Rahul and thank you Claude. <sobs uncontrollably> I said I wasn't crazy! Not completely! Oh yeah, "WOOT! Der it is! WOOT! Der it is!" <grinning happy as a mudlark> Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
