Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed November 9 2005 2:10 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> "Contrary to earlier reports, the Waltham, Mass.-based Novell has
> changed its plans and will not release a "best of breed" Linux
> desktop that combines the best features from the GNOME and KDE
> environments, said Ted Haeger, the Linux Desktop's director of
> marketing. Instead, users will be offered an option for either KDE
> or GNOME during the installation process".
well, I had just upgraded to SUSE 10.0, using KDE. This got me to 
wonder about Gnome, so I logged in using gnome desktop. just for grins 
I tried to run evolution, but it said evolution was not installed. AND 
the button on the system tray that said evolution didn't work. It also 
had a command of evolution-2.0 . After running smart upgrade ( running 
YaST and installing evolution failed, evolution still bombed) it 
upgraded evolution, and by changing the system tray icon preference to 
run the command evolution, it WORKED. I still like kmail better ( I'm 
used to it) BUT, I did notice that the apps started faster, I would 
have to think that KDE is much more of a resource hog than gnome, just 
on a cursory look.. BUT I am still more comfortable running KDE. I 
guess KDE is more Windoze like, slow and bloated :)


-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800