On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Druid wrote:-
On 9/9/07, Clayton
wrote: Just wondering... why is it that the Gnome version of YAST is so dramatically different from the KDE one in openSUSE 10.3 Beta3?
My oppinion, based on historic observations, says that the reason for that is simply because they like to change the stuff, just for the sake of saying they changed, without absolutely any reason (may the flames begin, I know).
You want matches or a lighter to start them off? :) <snip>
The Gnome version of YAST is unwieldy and hard to use
100% agreed
I don't completely agree. I actually like the package management part of the YaST under Gnome. As for the rest of it, I've not dug too deeply but, from my initial impression, I still don't like it. Mind you, I'm probably a little biased since I just don't like the look of the Gnome desktop anyway.
- not that the KDE one is a good example,
100% agreed
I quite like the look of the QT version of YaST. It certainly a much closer match to the console version, which is something I find myself using more than the GUI version.
but it is certainly much much better than the Gnome one.
100% agreed
Well, apart from the package management, I agree with that.
Isn't it a bit of a major usability issue if the core tools that set SUSE apart from all the other distributions are so inconsistent/different?
Yes, but as Ive said the gnome people want to make it different at all costs.
Bit more tinder :) <snip>
All that said, does it really matter? Everybody uses kde with qt interface in yast in opensuse.
Not quite. I actually prefer the console version. It seems a little quicker and, with the exception of a few features available to the GUI version[0], is virtually the same.
Since you expressed your feelings about it, my advice is dont use the yast gtk version for the sw_single module and dont use gnome. That way you will never see it again, only the qt version, which I think will solve your problems, mostly.
That's certainly one way round it. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 100 Mnodes/s: www.distributed.net RISC OS 3.11 | SUSE 10.0 32bit | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit RISC OS 3.6 | SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit TOS 4.02 | SUSE 9.3 32bit | | openSUSE 10.3b2 32bit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org