[SLE] Disappointed with SLED 10 KDE
I downloaded the free-to-download SLED 10 RC3, made a DVD using makeSUSEdvd 0.33, and wrote to a DVD+RW and installed. I saw no improvements in the KDE interface. I chose not to install Gnome as KDE is my preferred desktop. There seemed to be no big difference added to KDE. YaST had a couple of more config options, IIRC, and the KMenu structure was somewhat better than in SUSE regular. This is where it makes me feel bad that Novell does not add these extra functions to KDE while they can so readily do it to Gnome. I think I am going to empty that partition after a couple of days, and delete the downloaded (and created) ISOs. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.53 on SUSE Linux 10.1 $ date [] CCE +2006-07-05 W27-3 UTC+0530 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Thanks for your report. Kind of confirms what I was expecting. Chuck On 7/5/06, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> wrote:
I downloaded the free-to-download SLED 10 RC3, made a DVD using makeSUSEdvd 0.33, and wrote to a DVD+RW and installed.
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
In a follow-up, I installed the GNOME system too and actually worked in SLED 10 (both KDE and GNOME) for half an hour. The only visible difference in GNOME from KDE is that the menu system is different aka intended to be more powerful but I did not really like to open a new window to access all apps. Another general difference is that the icon scheme is more serious Fedora-type than in SUSE regular. For example, you won't see a pineapple in YaST. The colours of the icons are also not vibrant, which I always like. (I don't think they would distract anyone so I don't understand the reason behind de-vibrant-ing the colours.) Personally, I like SUSE-R (as I call SUSE-regular) better. More fun. SLED is more somber, and is biased towards GNOME, which is another big reason for me to dislike it. http://www.novell.com/linux/comparative.html does not list any (important) functional differences between SLED and SUSE-R, and so I think I will stick with SUSE-R. SLED will stay on my HDD for a week, maybe. Then it goes. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.53 on SUSE Linux 10.1 $ date [] CCE +2006-07-06 W27-4 UTC+0530
Here's a comparison of SLED 10 with SUSE-Regular 10.1: http://disruptive.org.uk/20060709.packages/sle10-10.1-dvd.html The one big thing (for some people) is the MP3 support out-of-the-box. That I can get on SUSE-R too by installing a package from Packman. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.53 on SUSE Linux 10.1 $ date [] CCE +2006-07-10 W28-1 UTC+0530
Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> writes:
Here's a comparison of SLED 10 with SUSE-Regular 10.1:
http://disruptive.org.uk/20060709.packages/sle10-10.1-dvd.html
The one big thing (for some people) is the MP3 support out-of-the-box.
RealPlayer is part of the the extra CD, so the support is on both products,
That I can get on SUSE-R too by installing a package from Packman.
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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