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. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org