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Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, hattons@CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil produced:
I have been using Unix on and off for years. There is one feature that seems to really stink. I don't like the dialog box for file manipulation.
Aehm, WHICH 'dialog box for file manipulation' ? I use the bash (and fvwm2). If I want to create a directory, for example, I type mkdir directory. So I think you are talking about some other windowmanager (kdm comes to mind) or a 'norton commander' clone (there are half a dozen on the SuSE 5.2 CD's IIRC. UNIX per se is not graphical (which is a big plus, as you can slap on different graphics servers, like the different X11 Servers aviable, and on top of these (but independent from them, as long as it's X11) many many different window managers, like enlightenment, fvwm, twm, CDE, kdm, .......). So please don't say Unix when you blame something else.
right-clicking like you can in 95/NT. I have found that StarOffice does have this right-click feature, so I know that it can be done in Unix.
Sure it can be done. Almost everything that can be done as a GUI in WinXX can be done under Unix, it's a question of writing the program (parts), and of wanting to do it the WinXX way - often there are better ways.
Since the dialog box that I am referring to seems to exist on every Unix GUI that I have worked with, I assume it is something basic to the way X works.
nope. X is just the 'graphics card' to your window manager. If you run Windows everywhere, it'll look the same everywhere, but that won't mean that you could not put other pictures on your monitor. And I never ever saw these boxes. I presume you were using always the same window manager/program/ whatever with mostly the same configurations (especially if it's a WM). -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e