Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3288 mails)

[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 29 December 2007 12:09:57 am Bryen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 23:22 -0600, M Harris wrote:
> > On Friday 28 December 2007 22:14, Allen wrote:
> > > So does anyone have any idea what happened? Is my system now doomed to
> > > having to just deal with this? WindowMaker and KDE and everything else
> > > work just fine but if I want to use Gnome
> >
> >    Let's see... KDE works fine, but you want to use Gnome, which is badly
> > broken... uh, huh.
> >
> >    Well, THAT MAKES SENSE.
> >
> >    <sigh>
> >
> >    Sorry. That just wasn't nice...  I'm sorry things aren't working well
> > for you right now, and I hope they improve. I feel your pain.
> >
> >    But, I USE KDE... as do most other folks who actually want their
> > desktops to be functional, professional, uh, state-of-the-art, and well,
> > not broken all the time. YMMV.  (probably)
> >
> >    ...  this is like, you know, 85% ethanol honked up my engine but I
> > really want to use it anyway even though good 'ol 87 octane lead free
> > works great... cause I like engine repairs???   <sigh>
> >
> >    [ducking for cover behind stone wall wearing KDE flame suit]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > M Harris     <><
>
> What kind regards is there with a statement like that???   It really is
> an injustice to the request of the OP, as well as to the hard work of
> people who develop GNOME.  I'm not sure why Allen's GNOME got fried, and
> I wish I could help him out.
>
> But to imply that GNOME is a broken piece of crap, which is what you are
> definitely implying is nothing short of slanderous.  I've used GNOME for
> 3 years now, and am quite happy with it.  I originally used KDE but
> personally found it to be more of a Mickey-Mouse setup and find great
> comfort and ease in GNOME.
>
> Others have their opinions as to which one functions better for their
> needs, and that's fine.  Everyone's entitled to an opinion, and the nice
> thing is we have CHOICE in what works best for each of us.
>
> But, please... don't state that GNOME is broken all the time.  That's
> just ludicrous and a patently false statement.  GNOME works well and for
> me and for MANY others, it has not been a broken experience.  And oh
> yeah, we're professionals too, by the way.
>
> Making statements like that here is just a waste of bandwidth.
>
> --
> ---Bryen---

I have seen to installations using the 10.3 DVD, on both installations GNOME 
was picked as the desktop (one I have done and the other was a class mate 
looking for a distro to replace Mandriva with).  The installation went fine, 
but when the installation finished it should have gone to the log in screen, 
but instead the graphics didn't want to work, and we sat there and gave up 
when the screen went to standby.  Graphics work fine as long as your are in 
one of the F1-F6 screens, go to F7 and nothing happens.  I gave up on GNOME 
installed it again this time with KDE and everything worked fine, I was able 
to log in and work with a desktop.  Now I am not trying to start, or support 
a war between KDE and GNOME users here, but from what I have seen, using 
openSUSE 10.3, GNOME is picky about the system that it is running on. 

P.S. If someone has a clue as to why this happened then please tell. 
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