On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com> wrote: > > - Launch menu or Apps/Places/System menu? > > Personally, I use CLI or individual launchers, but tend to feel far more > comfortable with the launch menu than the triplet. > > (And as for the quick launch section question, unnecessary if it overlaps > with launchers on the panel.)
Agreed. > > - What applets/launchers on panels by default? > > As for launchers, I find that the two shipped are far too close together. > They look ugly because they almost touch, and it's too easy to click > the wrong one. Agreed. > > - Icons (e.g. Home folder) on the desktop by default, or empty desktop > > by default? > > I turn off the active desktop entirely. But then I've got so many > windows that I can't get to any icons anyway so they're pointless. Ubuntu ships "out-of-the-box" with an empty desktop; if I recall correctly. > > - GNOME or KD... no, let's not get into that one :) > > Interestingly, my kids both prefer KDE. What's interesting about KDE is that every distributor that ships it, tends to ship it with all of its integrated components. Distributions don't tend to mix and match applications *as much* with KDE as they do GNOME. Whether this is proof that well-integrated applications are preferred over "mix and match" I don't know. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
