Re: [opensuse] KDE 4 vs Gnome vs Windows
On Monday 02 August 2010 17:52:19 Duaine Hechler wrote:
That was pretty much my gut feeling too.
By default, does Gnome have the plain desktop like KDE 3 (in other words, not in a folder on the desktop like KDE4)
I must admit the idea of the folder==desktop makes no sense to me and I found the old KDE awkward in that respect. I have things on my (real) desktop apart from files and folders. Lets leave out my coffee cup ... I have lots of folders. More than one can be open at a time. I have a clock, and a phone and some books and lots of yellow stickies that are to-do lists and other stuff, and 5x3 notes, as well as a CDPlayer/Radio. I have things for which there is really no computer analogue like a cup full of pens and a box of paper-clips. The KDE4 "desktop" makes more sense to me. -- You've got to hand it to the Inland Revenue. If not, they'll come and take it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 13:07 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
On Monday 02 August 2010 17:52:19 Duaine Hechler wrote:
That was pretty much my gut feeling too. By default, does Gnome have the plain desktop like KDE 3 (in other words, not in a folder on the desktop like KDE4) I must admit the idea of the folder==desktop makes no sense to me
It is a rather over-stretched, and never very worthwhile, metaphor. The lowest z-level of my display has little to anything in common with my physical desktop - no one stacks a pile of documents on top of their clock and half-obscuring their phone, and then plays solitare on top of that. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Adam Tauno Williams said the following on 08/02/2010 01:46 PM:
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 13:07 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
On Monday 02 August 2010 17:52:19 Duaine Hechler wrote:
That was pretty much my gut feeling too. By default, does Gnome have the plain desktop like KDE 3 (in other words, not in a folder on the desktop like KDE4) I must admit the idea of the folder==desktop makes no sense to me
It is a rather over-stretched, and never very worthwhile, metaphor. The lowest z-level of my display has little to anything in common with my physical desktop - no one stacks a pile of documents on top of their clock and half-obscuring their phone, and then plays solitare on top of that.
True, but lets not talk about that pile of documents obscuring my checkbook and where the **** did I put my calculator? -- There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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