On Tue, 30 May 2000, David Henningsson wrote: > >If you are running KDE, > > I'm currently using Slink 2.1r4. Is KDE in potato? I don't think I have > seen a package with KDE on my two CD's. I saw gnome, with big warning > labels saying thinks like "!!!WARNING!!! ALPHA software! This is very buggy > and horrible and you don't want it".
KDE is not in Debian, or contrib or non-free. Checkout: http://kde.tdyc.com/ and ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian > If I've got it right, there are two 'somethings': KDE and GNOME, and they > work at the same level. And there are window managers, which work at > another level. What are KDE and GNOME, what is the right word? Do you have > to have one of them? I have no icons on my desktop, although staroffice > told me it was going to install one... KDE and Gnome are `desktop environments' (DE), you can make your own by installing a window manager, session management, and a bunch of utilities. The advantage to using a prepackaged DE, rather than building one yourself, is that all the fiddly little bits are already done for you and everything should work together `right out of the box'. The disadvantage is that they tend to be large, and could easily become bloated (some would say they already are :). > What I've heard, KDE is trying to look like windows, and GNOME isn't. > Right? I'm a bit confused. Well, I don't have much experience with Windows, but... The KDE default is to have a Windows style, but you can change it to look like Motif (I've never seen Motif, so can only assume I haven't been lied to) easily enough. As far as I'm concerned, they all pretty much work the same way; whether you click on a `Start' icon or the background, to get a main menu is trivial. KDE is very configurable, and I assume Gnome is also (but it keeps crashing on me so I haven't bother with it much). > When I read some docs in emacs, I find that the headlines are filled with > "^" and "~" and perhaps "_" among the chars. What reader should I use to > read these docs? headlines?? I'm not sure what you are referring to. I've noticed that some editors (viewers?) place tildes (~) on lines they display that are not actually in the file being viewed... I use "zless"; actually, I told GIT to use zless as its pager. later, Bruce
