Randall R Schulz wrote:

John,

On Saturday 17 December 2005 16:20, John Graddy wrote:

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I have recently installed version 10 of SuSE LINUX. I am trying to compare GNOME and KDE to see which I would prefer. When I click the "My Computer" icon under KDE, nothing happens. Clicking the "Computer" icon under GNOME gives the normal display of all of my disk devices.

By "click" do you actually mean "double-click?" 'Cause that's what it takes to open a desktop icon under KDE.

But I can give you the answer you seek: KDE is far superior to Gnome.

All of my icons in KDE work with a single-click

Randall R Schulz:

John,

On Saturday 17 December 2005 16:20, John Graddy wrote:

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I have recently installed version 10 of SuSE LINUX.  I am trying to compare GNOME and KDE to see which I would prefer.  When I click the "My Computer" icon under KDE, nothing happens.  Clicking the "Computer" icon under GNOME gives the normal display of all of my disk devices.

By "click" do you actually mean "double-click?" 'Cause that's what it takes to open a desktop icon under KDE.

But I can give you the answer you seek: KDE is far superior to Gnome.

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John

Randall Schulz

I'm not click happy either. Mine is single click.

John, On Saturday 17 December 2005 17:12, John Graddy wrote:

I installed all of the software using defaults.

I have to double click desktop icons under GNOME. I single click under KDE.

It's an option. I prefer to have the ability to select an icon without activating it.

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But I can give you the answer you seek: KDE is far superior to Gnome.

At this point, I think that I agree with you. Accept,of course, that "My Computer" in KDE doesn't work for me and "Computer" in GNOME does work for me.

In KDE, I can still go to the /media directory and access all of my CDs. USB memory cards, etc. However, it would be a whole lot more convenient if "My Computer" gave me icons for them.

That one trivial thing couldn't possible tip the balance, could it? How often do you navigate to a file from the root of the file system or of a given mass storage device, anyway? It kind of flies in the face of thinking double-clicking is too much work to open an icon to have to interpose so many access steps between you and your files, doesn't it?

Thanks, John

Randall Schulz

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 16:54 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

John,

On Saturday 17 December 2005 16:20, John Graddy wrote:

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I have recently installed version 10 of SuSE LINUX. I am trying to compare GNOME and KDE to see which I would prefer. When I click the "My Computer" icon under KDE, nothing happens. Clicking the "Computer" icon under GNOME gives the normal display of all of my disk devices.

By "click" do you actually mean "double-click?" 'Cause that's what it takes to open a desktop icon under KDE.

Not if you set it up to use a single click as I have.

But I can give you the answer you seek: KDE is far superior to Gnome.

I agree here. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

On Sunday 18 December 2005 12:27 am, James Ogley wrote:

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But I can give you the answer you seek: KDE is far superior to Gnome.

I agree here.

I don't (no surprise).

But you know what, let's avoid another KDE vs GNOME thread and agree that some people prefer one, some the other. They're both fantastic desktops, and you can and should use whichever you prefer.

Free Software is all about choice. --

You Again? James I thought you went off to be sky pilot of some such... Nice to see you back. Anyway, re Gnome Vs KDE, I have the whimpy vintage laptop which I find works much better with Gnome and Ubuntu than KDE and SuSE. So I agree there are uses for both. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen

On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 20:03 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:

At 06:20 PM 12/17/2005 -0600, John Graddy wrote:

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I have recently installed version 10 of SuSE LINUX. I am trying to compare GNOME and KDE to see which I would prefer. When I click the "My Computer" icon under KDE, nothing happens. Clicking the "Computer" icon under GNOME gives the normal display of all of my disk devices.

I can find no error messages after trying "My Computer".

Has anyone had this problem?

John

You should get a window, with a bunch of selections on the left, for applications, settings, various browsers, etc. In the window should appear icons for drives, maybe other things. (My machine is fairly virgin, at the moment.) I have never tried Gnome, nor do I intend to. The whole interface looks ugly to me, and it has a bad rep on the list, here.

Some of us like gnome and some of us don't. I like both and use both. In fact when I had 9.3 on my system I used gnome about 98%+ of the time as KDE had become unusable due to slowmess.

Speaking of interfaces, I sure wish somebody would write a clone of Eudora, since Qualcomm doesn't seem likely to. KMail is useable (once you have made the typeface big enough to read) but Eudora is infinitely nicer.

IIRC Eudora runs under wine. If you want a full powered e-mail and news client in one then try Forte's (Free) Agent under wine.

BTW: anything that starts with "My" is instantly renamed on any of my machines, especially since I have more than one. Programmers should respect that choice and avoid using such names. What, are we all still in Kindergarten?

<chuckle> I do wish the programmers would use the same name as the computer's "Host name" instead of my computer.

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 18:55 +0000, Kevanf1 wrote:

On 18/12/05, Mike McMullin wrote:

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IIRC Eudora runs under wine. If you want a full powered e-mail and news client in one then try Forte's (Free) Agent under wine.

Are you sure about this? I used to use the excellent - in the Windows world - Forte Free Agent. It was only a full news and mail client IF you upgraded to the full version . In other words it went from being Forte 'Free' Agent ot being Forte Agent.

You can Google for Forte Agent on Linux, I'm sure you'll find something. There was a link on the Forte site back a couple of years ago (about SuSE 8.2 IIRC), on how to get it running under wine on a Red Hat system. I've had it set up and running under wine for my wife, in her profile since SuSE 9.1, and I'm running 10.0 now. It does actually behave quite nicely and I have been able to cut the rego number out of Evolution and paste it into Agent.

Now, I may be be behind the times with it as I do remember Forte stopping development of Agent about 5 or 6 years ago. Please enlighten me if I'm wrong.

I just paid for the upgrade for the latest Agent. I haven't actually set it up for myself just yet.

If you are not happy with KMail then there is always Pegasus Mail from the Windows world which is very, very good and 'should' be fully supported under WINE. It has a similar interface to KMail.

I have never used K-Mail. If I can't have Evolution then I'll bite the bullet and use Agent period, and lose all of my contact info, etc. Mike

Mark, Thanks. Making the change to /media accomplishes what I want to happen. Before the change, the URL field contained drives:/. I believe that I must be missing a file or a directory somewhere. John On Saturday 17 December 2005 19:13, Mark Crean wrote:

On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:20, John Graddy wrote:

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I have recently installed version 10 of SuSE LINUX.  I am trying to compare GNOME and KDE to see which I would prefer.  When I click the "My Computer" icon under KDE, nothing happens.  Clicking the "Computer" icon under GNOME gives the normal display of all of my disk devices.

I can find no error messages after trying "My Computer".

Has anyone had this problem?

I recently had the same problem.

Right-click on the MyComputer icon in KDE and go to Properties. On the URL tab, change drive:/ to media:/, then click on OK and exit. When clicked, the icon will now throw up your /media directory from where all mounted drives can be accessed. I don't know if this is what the MyComputer icon is meant to do, but it's a lot better than clicking on it and nothing happens.

:)

Fish