On 05 Feb 2002 19:53:53 -0800, Bryan B Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Gnome. The main annoying reason was: For some reason KDE cannot > handle very fast internet connections. > > In konqueror (spelling?) if I download a big file from the internet Kde > becomes totally unresponsive till I get the file. It can't handle > pulling 1-3.5MByte/sec over internet2.... :( > > This gets seriously annoying.... and I can't but help useing konqueror > while in KDE... :) While in gnome I use mozilla or plain netscape. > > I feel like KDE is "one big app"... kinda like staroffice 5.2. While in > gnome each app seems to "be on it's own". Sure galeon/mozilla might slow > to a crawl while I'm doing large transfers... but the rest of my desktop > keeps responding. :) > > It's more in my head... I just don't like everything being so > interdependant... Kde gives me that feeling.
You should really use a download manager. Galeon interfaces extremely well with GNOME Transfer Manager (GTM) and Downloader for X (NT). All you have to do is Shift+Click a link and Galeon sends to to the download manager to be downloaded. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Tabs are 8 characters. They are NOT adjustable. Never have been, never will be. Anybody who thinks tabs are anything but 8 chars apart is just wrong. It's that simple." -- Linus Torvalds
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