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Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
- From: Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:47:06 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <1131489883.10782.14.camel@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:22 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> I've used SuSE Linux since 5.1. At that time neither the KDE nor GNOME
> existed. I have never seen a GNOME install that I liked. That may be due,
> in part, to the fact that I know the KDE much better than the GNOME. But I
> suspect there is more to it than that. From what I've seen, the widgets like
> the file browser are simply inferior to what the KDE provides. The KDE is,
> in my mind, what now defines SuSE. For Novell to switch to GNOME would take
> away one of the most important aspects that makes SuSE great.
>
> I suspect this has something to do with Mono. They probably think they can
> achieve greater compatability with the Monopolistic software company's
> products that way.
>
Only since 7.0 myself. I use Gnome for email because running under KDE
is too slow on this PII with only 256mb memory. For file management I
prefer KDE in spite of all the jokes at the local linux group.
In any case its nice to have the choice of window managers, try that
with Monopoly$oft.
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> I've used SuSE Linux since 5.1. At that time neither the KDE nor GNOME
> existed. I have never seen a GNOME install that I liked. That may be due,
> in part, to the fact that I know the KDE much better than the GNOME. But I
> suspect there is more to it than that. From what I've seen, the widgets like
> the file browser are simply inferior to what the KDE provides. The KDE is,
> in my mind, what now defines SuSE. For Novell to switch to GNOME would take
> away one of the most important aspects that makes SuSE great.
>
> I suspect this has something to do with Mono. They probably think they can
> achieve greater compatability with the Monopolistic software company's
> products that way.
>
Only since 7.0 myself. I use Gnome for email because running under KDE
is too slow on this PII with only 256mb memory. For file management I
prefer KDE in spite of all the jokes at the local linux group.
In any case its nice to have the choice of window managers, try that
with Monopoly$oft.
--
_______ _______ _______ __
/ ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / /
| | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / /
| | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ /
| |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ /
\_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/
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