> Yes, icons can be worthless for finding new applications. The > advantage for icons is for finding known applications (or file > types) quickly. It much easier and intermediate user to find > their mozilla icon on the desktop than to wade through a menu to > find Web Browser: Mozilla (though it faster still to type > 'mozilla&' in an xterm ;)). Anyway menu systems seem more useful > for newbies (or at least icons with balloon help describing name > or function. The best thing KDE ever did was add the Alt-F2 function to type in the command. I hate mice to begin with, and to be able to Alt-F2 vmware/opera/mozilla/whatever is wonderful :) > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org > _______________________________________________