On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 10:42, Don Parris wrote:
Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Saturday 30 October 2004 7:21 pm, Don Parris wrote:
GNOME & KDE both look good so far, but I'm coming from the dark ages. I'm about to look at the othe desktops/window managers. One other things. I'm not sure what happened to the Summary view in Evolution. If someone can tell me how to get that back, I'd love to know. At least tell me how to get the news feeds in Evolution. That what made it so cool!
Hi Don, I'm kinda new here and I did order 9.2, so I'll be right behind you installing it:) are you running gnome and KDE at the same time? or did you just try both? Isn't Evolution to gnome what KDEPIM is to KDE ? is evolution any better than KDEPIM?
thanks,
Don
I typically install pretty much every graphical desktop I can. That may not be "the correct" way to do it, and on the rest of the systems, I may choose to install a single desktop. However, I playing with the features of the different desktops. Kontact and Evolution are equivalents. Now that Evolution has done away with its Summary page, I'm totally miffed. When it gets where it's nearly perfect, they screw it up. This means I'll have to consider it against Kontact, based on other features. I would have preferred Evolution. It's Summary page was a step up from Outlook. I'm also not a big KDE fan. I use it, and it runs nicely - just not my taste. I like GNOME. That's the advantage of GNU/Linux - choice. And that choice can be simply a matter of taste.
That being the case, I'm going to order the Forte Agent upgrade and run it under Wine. I really like the Summary Page in Evolution.
I should say that K3B did a great job of burning on my HP CD Writer 9500. While it was possible under SUSE 8.0, it was really easy last night. Frankly, I still can't get over the automation of the installation. I've heard Xandros may be simpler (3-click install), but Yast managed my sound card, video card & montior, and my HP 970Cse inkjet printer (with duplex module). I did test my monitor (Cybervision C70) and sound card (on-board), as well as print a test page. But I'm so used to having to select my monitor, and the correct printer driver (from about 3 possiblities), that I was totally blown away by the auto-configuration. I've had more difficulty with Win98/XP.
You can download the "community" version of Xandros and try an install. It will require bittorrent in order to get, and if you do a vanilla install it may very well be three clicks. It wasn't for me, but then I wanted to see what the installer was capable of doing. {snip} Mike