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Yes, Harpers Ferry is very beautiful. You live nearby?

And BTW, it's Mr.!

Mp3tag can be installed in wine, at least.

I can use Yahoo Mail (though my default email is Gmail) without incident. Classic, Newer or otherwise. Not sure what's going on.

The prioblem is that this is an unfinished work. Notice in the title it says "preview". I downloaded it and installed it, and some icons were changed (I tested in Mint). The problem is that some of the icons are missing. For instance, the folder for Places in various sizes needed for a working theme (size 24, for instance). If you were to have checked the comments from page 1 (at the bottom of the project's Gnome-Look page), you would have seen that this is still a work in progress.

So it's not you, it's the theme.

As omns said, use a panel such as lxpanel. However, your choice in applets is very, very limited. I use xfce4-panel, and you find many, many applets in synaptic to accomplish what you want.

A note though, if you're hoping to add a xfce4-weather-plugin, there is a bug that won't allow the weather to be parsed. Honestly, I think that the weather service the panel uses changed how weather is displayed on their site, thus preventing the applet from working.

The solution for me was to use the plugin provided for karmic. Here's what I did.

1. Download the source package: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u … rig.tar.gz

2. Extract the package: tar xvzf xfce4-weather-plugin_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz

3. Switch to the extracted directory: cd xfce4-weather-plugin-0.7.0/

4. Install any necessary dependencies: sudo apt-get build-dep xfce4-weather-plugin

5. Finish installing with ./configure && make && sudo make install

Also, as omns also stated, if you'd like to start xfce4-panel at startup, you'd need to alter autostart.sh. To test it out, close tint2 and run xfce4-panel in gmrun (alt-f2).

It must be noted though, that there are a few dependencies for xfce4-panel, and building the plugin will require at the very least, one dev package (xfce4-panel), so that might be a determining factor, but if you want something that resembles something a bit more like gnome-panel in functionality, then this is a good choice. As for me, my setup has 4GB of Ram, 200GB of HD space, etc., so #! is more of a choice as opposed to a necessity. Taxing my system a bit more than need be is of little consequence, though running the panel seems little more resource intensive than other options available.

Since I'm using a laptop, I've just found it more convenient to use wicd so that my internet is connected when I login. I run mail-notification, xfce4-weather-plugin, and so forth, and I hate having to update the tray icons. I know there are other ways of having a wireless connection with nm-applet at login, but for me, wicd is just hasslefree.

That being said, I agree that nm-applet is wonderful, and honestly, tends to work better for me in general (gives more accurate signal strength readings... wicd-client reports 100+ percent often -- some report the opposite to be true in favor of wicd on this point), but still, it's ease of use that's won me over.

At any rate, I'm happy using either. I remember the early days of Ubuntu, linux in general, and what PITA connecting wirelessly was. Linux has definitely come a long way

I've noticed issues as well. For me, it was installing the PPA for Midori. It pulled more recent webkit packages that seemed to make Gwibber unusable. Gwibber would start but never display information. I removed Midori since it always seems to crash for me anyway. Problem solved.

Am I missing something here, or doesn't Pidgin already do this for you? You can just add a Google Talk account under Accounts. I know that this is essentially equivalent as the XMPP protocol is used either way, but this seems redundant. I think I had to do this back in Gutsy? Maybe.