Today, being Saturday and being my gf away until tonight, I finally managed to download Dropline Gnome and install it on my Slackware 9.0 notebook.

The dropline packages are a little more than 250Mb and they download and install flawlessly with the dropline installer. I do not know why I stopped using Slackware sometime in 1996 or 1997 for RedHat, it is so much faster and leaner.

Well, back to Dropline Gnome. After having downloaded everything, I dropped in single mode and got out to do some stuff. When I came back later all the packages had been properly installed. I only had to recompile freetype after enabling the bytecode interpreter, and everything is as it should be, only better than before. It's really amazing how much Gnome keeps improving.

I also installed the new Friday theme I downloaded after following a news item on FootNotes instead of my usual Metabox theme, and I like it a lot. I took a screenshot of my plain (but uncluttered) desktop

Now if only I could get google search back in my Mozilla location bar..... =)

update: found a partial solution by inserting:

user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.com/search?q=");

to my prefs.js file. It works but in a different way from what I'm used to: instead of dropping down a list it goes straight to google.....

update2: grrrr when one is dumb......I only had to select a couple of checkboxes in the Advanced settings of the Location Bar.