Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Ged <ged.suse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am currently playing about with Gnome and am finding it to be much
better than KDE was. I am also playing about with Evolution which is
also great.

I am still open to any suggestions people have though.

thanks.

On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 14:34, Marshall Heartley wrote:
> > I'm looking for advice on alternatives people use. I have installed Gnome and 
> > find it to be aesthetically pleasing, but can't make judgement at present as 
> > I only looked at if for 20 mins.
> 
> You will need to install a desktop and give it a try.  Let you be the
> judge of what you like and don't like.  There are many of them out
> there.  It is a matter of choice.  You will only know if you like it
> when you start using it.  I personally have used KDE, GNOME,
> enlightenment, fvwm, Windowmaker, and fluxbox.  I am trying openbox that
> comes with SuSE.  Fluxbox does not come with SuSE and you will need to
> compile it to get it to work.  There are many more than the ones that I
> mentioned.  I have also used XFCE.  Again it is a matter of choice.  I
> think that I will be going back to fluxbox once I can get the thing
> compiled :)
> 
> > One of my main gripes is Kmail. I have become use to it and need an 
> > alternative that will be as feature packed at that was.
> 
> Well again there are choices.  I am using Evolution.  But as another
> poster mentioned, you can keep your Kmail if you wish.
> 
> Noticing that you just converted, I would stick to the desktops that are
> on the CD/DVD's or you can find a rpm for.  You may not be up to trying
> to compile something right yet :)
> 
> Marshall Heartley
>