Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
On 01/14/2007 J Sloan wrote:
I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? And one single desktop - bleh.
How many times a day do you even have to think about where something is on a harddrive, unless your using CLI exclusively. You click an icon, or a menu shortcut, the program opens. You do whatever and close the program. Click another icon. Not that much difference. Even click an icon to open a terminal "window".
In linux, I don't really think about where a command is - it's in the path, and it works, that's all I need to know. OTOH, editing files is an area where I appreciate not having to type some silly pee cee drive letter.
However, Linux does use a sort of drive letter. FD, HDA, HDB, etc. A, C, D, etc are shorter designations. Especially when you have to add the partition number, FD0, HDA1, HDA2, HDB1, HDB2, etc. It's all in how you keep track of them.
Not really. there are device entries such as /dev/hda, but why would you care? they are not part of the path. As an example, a unix file might be called ~/.profile, while on a peecee platform it would be something like C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\PROFILE.INI
I do like the multiple desktops. If I get one to jammed up I can open the other and start over on a clean page. Kind of like the tabbed browsing in Konqueror and Firfox. It's a LOT easier, and more efficient, than having multiple iterations of the same program. It took Microsoft a long time to figure it out in IE.
I use 6 virtual kde desktops at work, and each of them has something specific going on - it would be painful and awkward to go back to the microsoft way of doing things. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org