On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:35 +0530, aram v nathan wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:23 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
But this problem was cause I'm not running KDE, i'm trying to get this to work in GNOME. Here it comes again. ---------------------------------------------------- Hi. When I use the KDE there is a powersave for my laptop monitor (just the monitor) so it goes totally black but I'm not able to find the same option in GNOME (the monitor goes black but not totally as in KDE). Is there some setting I have missed or is there som package I have to install? Regards /Per Since the fine folks that are creating Gnome consider "less control" to be "less confusing" to the user it probably does not exist. The best
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:18 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote: thing to do would be to write the developers requesting control over the shutdown of the monitor and then -not- hold your breath waiting for a change. There was a long discussion involving Linus (the linux creator) about why there are so few options for the user to make changes to their gnome environment the the developers said that having to many control options available to the user would be "confusing" to the user. Go figure.
Bill Gates also thought likewise perhaps thats why his OS has been a succcess in no small measure.
Dumb down the product, dumb down the user. Linux is all about the user having -more- control not less. Ask a college graduate today to do something at a command prompt and most won't even know what you are talking about. Does that make the product better, I think not. I am not saying Gnome is not a good desktop, it could be much better if the user had more control over it's settings. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998