I didn't like the "Run Application" thingy in Gnome 2.4, cause every time I type the first letter of a command, it hang for 10-15 seconds (probably looking for possible completions), and since my terminal starts faster, I use the terminal.
But, hey, there's Gnome 2.6 now, why not try that?

One hell of an emerge later, Gnome 2.6 is compiled and installed. I need to restart GDM to get the greeter working again, but that's not too bad, I suppose ...

First, I'll start with a description of the situation, so you could understand my needs, then I'll describe how I installed and configured wu-imapd-ssl on a Debian box.

As you could read in my previous there are still some aspects about Linux I don't understand (I wrote about fonts and mentioned printing). But if there's another thing it's sound. Basically it's easy. OSS or Alsa provides drivers, both make an /dev/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp device, and most software uses those devices to play or capture sound.

Recently I read about the fact that Gnome and KDE are getting heavier. Indeed, it took about 10 seconds after login before everything was started on my notebook. In fact only 2 things are causing most of that waiting: kdeinit for running kopete (which I stopped using by now), and nautilus (which i use only once a week, but is started every time I log in). Time for something else.