Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1761 mails)

[Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:26:38 DenverD wrote:
> [...]
> imHo, the best way to get back on track is to hard wire "desktop
> effects" to off and shoot for a operating system again, rather than an
> entertainment system to sit and watch in amazement!
> [...]

KDE is not an operating system - nor is openSuSE.

GNU/Linux is the operating system (Linux is the kernel, GNU provides the tools 
that make it useable). 

openSuSE is a software distribution that includes GNU/Linux and a whole swag 
of other stuff.

X.org provides the graphical user interface (drives the hardware) and services 
to X clients, of which  KDE happens to be one.

KDE is a Window Manager (or "desktop environment") that in this case happens 
to be running on X.org on GNU/Linux (and packaged by the openSuSE project) but 
can just as well run on Windows or any other operating system that can provide 
an X server (with a bit of fiddling, more or less depending on a number of 
factors). 

So who, do you suggest, should be "shooting for an operating system"?

And, btw, some people *like* the desktop effects (some of them, at least - 
some are competely pointless). I, for one, really like having transparent, 
borderless console windows so that I can keep an eye on what is going on 
behind the active window...

I like my desktop widgets too. I have one that monitors my procmail log file 
(or any other log file that I want to watch in the background, four analog 
clocks showing me different time-zone of interest, a system monitor widget 
that gives me a quick and easy visual check of available space on a number of 
partitions, CPU/MB temp and processor usage. 

There's another one for the weather forecast (because my wife is always 
asking, "What's the weather going to be like tomorrow, and it's much easier to 
have it immediately at hand ;-), one monitoring network connections and the 
last one displaying the current Dilbert strip (updates daily). Oh, and a 
couple of small guages for swap and mem usage. I couldn't do any of that with 
KDE3 without resorting to Karamba, which was just as likely to crash the 
desktop as not.
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