I have a stable Redhat 9 with /boot, /, /swap and /home in separate partitions.

I have a stable Mandrake 9.2 with /boot and / in one partition and sharing the Redhats /swap and /home partitions, both are running with gnome.

I can share data in the /home partition between Mandrake and Redhat but the icons/applications on the Panel are unfortunately independant of each other, i.e. what you see in Redhat is not what you see in Mandrake.

I initialy set them up in Redhat pointing to the respective applications in /usr/bin and having the actual icons generated from a directory I created in /home thus the icons were shared between Redhat and Mandrake and a version of the application existed in Mandrakes /usr/bin and also Redhats /usr/bin.

When I logged into Mandake it said there was an Old Desktop then promptly saved it and removed all items from the panel. I set them up in Mandrake. Logged into Redhat and they had dissappeared.

Admitedly I believe I'm running on different releases of gnome and am now attempting to bring them into line.

It looks like that Mandrake and Redhat release updates of 3rd party software at different rates on Mandake Evolution was 1.4 whilst on Redhat it's 1.2 similar situation with Mozilla and it looks like to me with the Kernel as well.

The above is probally just a whinge in that there appears to be that the various distros are drifting away from each other and we will end up with 57 varieties of "Linux" that can't talk to each other.

I started with Linux on Caldera's Open Linux eDesktop 2.4 i.e. before they became greedy. I moved to Redhat and now I'm having to move to a different distro.

I guess what I really mean that I should go to Gentoo an build my own distro so at least I know where all the applications have come from and can keep upi with the appropriate releases.


If anybody can explain my icon/application/panel issue it would be greatly appreciated.

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"If anybody can explain my icon/application/panel issue it would be greatly appreciated."

Red Hat uses their own method of building desktops for Gnome and KDE called Bluecurve. Bluecurve makes the Red Hat Gnome and KDE desktops identical. It also makes the Red Hat Gnome and KDE desktops incompatible with any other distribution's desktops.

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It does beg the question why!!!!! Presumably to make it difficult to transport /home around different distros!!!!

"It does beg the question why!!!!! Presumably to make it difficult to transport /home around different distros!!!!"

Red Hat made Gnome their default GUI when Gnome was first released. Later KDE came into being and eventually more people were using KDE than were using Gnome. Red Hat developed Bluecurve as a misguided attempt to make Gnome and KDE look and act the same rather than just making KDE their default GUI. Bluecurve also makes it difficult to transport /home around different distros but I don't know whether or not that was Red Hat's intent.

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Thanks for the info.