What would be nice, is IBM porting the OS/2 Work Place Shell (WPS) to Linux. I've never seen another desktop that comes anywhere close to what it could do 12 years ago. James F. Pirtle wrote:
On Sunday 15 August 2004 16:58, Curtis Rey wrote: KDE seems to be a much better desktop for the new to Linux user (like me). I've had a lot of luck with it and haven't broken it yet. I especially like the many integrated applications. Hope SuSE sticks with it.
I would go back to Gnome if they lost the condescending attitude towards the user re: window manager and other things. I really don't like running both Gnome and KDE in the same session - too much bloat...and one of the things I liked about Pro 9.1 was the focus on KDE. Are they being distracted away from the better desktop?
Same here. I first became comfortable back in the day using Linux via Gnome. But after they dumped sawfish for metacity and Nautilus I was very turned off. Not the sawfish was better or worse - just more accessible. Since Metacity the config gui is insulting. I comes kludged in many areas IMHO, even in RH distros and since Metacity it takes a lot more effort than it should to correct. If your an admin setting up a desktop for the office and are familiar and competent configuring Gnome/metacity then it's a perfect fit in many respects - the office users have a harder time getting in and screwing things up. But it's not user friendly at all IMHO and for home/SOHO use it hinders rather than promotes LOTD in the public sector.
Cheers, Curtis.
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