From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: A friend had installed symantic but it didn't appear in the system-settings menu as it did on my machine. I told him to make an icon for it on the desktop. Right-click, create launcher, filled in the basics, and when done, nothing happened. Twice. On mine, it worked the same way. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.8.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right-click on the background 2. Select Create Launcher 3. Fill in the fields, including 'application' and pick an icon 4. Press "ok" Actual Results: Literally nothing. Nothing was created. And large amounts of it, too. :) Expected Results: An icon like I'd chosen would show up somewhere, usually under/near the icons on the left side of the screen. I moved the windows away in case they were under gaim, or gaim's chat window, but no dice. It simply wasn't created. Additional info: I thought the days of problems like these were long gone. Could it be some kinda screen refresh problem? That it's there, but not being presented until I logout?
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Well, FC3 was mainstream when I posted this bug- I'd completely forgotten about it, to be honest. But it highlights a bigger problem, though one over which you and I have no control. Redhat's turned SCO. Nope, not the RECENT SCO, but the old one. They're starting to make decisions based on business school, not common-sense-school. Like LDAP. While their implementation of LDAP has a *beautiful* install/configuration wrapper, it's wrapped around a version of LDAP that's three releases old. It breaks, it has problems, and isn't getting any better, YEARS since I started fighting it. Why? I think it's because they have the new Directory-Thing from Netscape; a monstrosity, by comparison. Even if all the parts were there, not just the server. Running in Java, offering only part of the solution, under a big banner with a new set of headaches that doubles the skills I need to learn to "do" LDAP; it's a non-starter. But it's far from the only problem: Xcdroast, for instance. Can't remove {KDE|Gnome} and leave the other, for instance. In short, Redhat is now translating so much of the original base of Linux, that it's almost become a fork, from the viewpoint of a maintainer of systems, like myself. That's why after all these years, since I started with Redhat 4.0, I'm using Ubuntu in all places I used to use Fedora. It *just*works*. Change a soundcard on reboot? It sees the change and without incident picks up where the old settings left off. Change video? Same thing. Their LDAP implementation is pretty close to current, though not CVS (thank God). In short, they do very little translation between author and user, and they do a really good job. Their documentation is clear- like someone who had time to only do documentation, and didn't give a rip about confounding the reader with confusing statements about legal terms, special meaning in California, or the rotation of the Earth; just simple docs. In all the struggle to maintain/grow stock shares, I think Redhat's forgotten about that. So drop this bug; we're two versions beyond it, now, and I'm another "version" beyond that. Sorry- I loved Redhat (as I loved SCO, btw) but the business-school square-heads are wrecking the product. Business school teachers who TAUGHT this stuff are 20 years behind even the Dot-Com era: they're guiding Redhat with old tactics, and killing it's innovation. See also: SCO charging $1100 for the development system. Business school taught them they need to be *reimbursed* for the time it took to compile that code....so they lost their market and had to sell out to the recent bunch of crooks who've done so well in their efforts. :) Instead, they restricted the ONE THING that causes more code to be generated for their platform. Can you believe that? If Redhat doesn't reform in a big way, NONE of these bug reports will matter. Any other open bug reports from me can go in the trash; I don't have time for this, now, sorry.
Okay, that's a nice rant and all, but I've got, like, eleven hundred of these bugs I'm going through. :) Anyway, marking CANTFIX as per comment above.