On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 21:46, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Interesting that an update left bogus icons and a new install worked, at least 
> with the icons.  It would be good to know what your desktop 
> configuration/history was before the update.  There must be a bug with the 
> update process.
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> I just attempted to do the 8.0 install as an update to see what my results 
> would be, after the backup of my data.  The disc 1 on my CD set is broken so 
> I could not do it.  I will have to wait until I can aquire another set.
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> Sorry that I only have comments on your woes.  I don't know where you can go 
> with the sound.  sndconfig has always done the trick for me but I have not 
> use RH 8.0 yet.
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I've learned some lessons so I took evasive action before I upgraded...

I moved ~/.kde & ~/.gnome before I upgraded.

I'm quite certain that the problem Tom had with the icons related to
upgrading the existing panel launchers in KDE got foobar. The only
problem that my strategy caused was I had installed OOffice.org-1.01 via
binaries and they didn't appear in the menu's. If you install with the
enclosed rpm's, I'm quite certain that the launcher buttons & menu items
will appear. But I was able to retrieve the OpenOffice.org-1.0 menus
from my backed up files and moved them in to the new setup.

KDE has a fairly easy to use menu editor - right click on the 'redhat'
button to access. Launch buttons in the 'panel' can be added / deleted /
edited real easily by right clicking on them. Reinstalling redhat
because the launch buttons and sound didn't work is windows mentality.

Unfortunately GNOME 2.0 on RH 8 doesn't have the ability to do menu
editing yet and it looked cool so until that problem is remedied, I'm
sticking with KDE.

regarding the sound issue...bugzilla is your friend

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75014

Craig