On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:46:57AM +0100, Richard Urwin wrote:
> 1. Redhat has in the past distributed two RPMs for ethereal: "ethereal" and
> "ethereal-GUI". You should probably install both. "ethereal" contains
> tethereal (The command line based ethereal) and "ethereal-GIU" contains
> ethereal.
...although further in the past they called the GUI one "ethereal-gnome"
or something such as that (the fact that Ethereal uses GTK+ but *not*
GNOME nonwithstanding).
> 2. In my experience (with Mandrake 9.x) no Linux install ever creates an
> icon either on the menus or the desktop. One reason for this is that there
> are so many different desktop managers about.
...although Debian has a scheme that lets a package install a menu
regardless of what's providing the menu:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/
although the message at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg00809.html
seems to be saying that KDE doesn't, and can't, use it, and the message
at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01131.html
seems to be saying GNOME doesn't use it either, and there's a
freedesktop.org menu scheme being developed:
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu.html