Problem on Gnome Desktop and FORCE upgrade

[Stephen Liu]

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

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