On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:29 pm, Dale Huckeby opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations:
> If it's "only" some icons and backgrounds, why does Mandrake threaten > to uncheck so many other packages, such as GMC and MC, when I uncheck it? > It's not just 800k of icons and backgrounds. It's an overall difference > in behavior between 7.2 and 8.1. With 7.2 I type in my userid, then my > password (at the console), and Bam!, I have a prompt. With 8.1 it takes > about 10 seconds. With 7.2, in Gnome, I can put in one of the install > CDs, double-click on the CD icon, and GMC pops up and in very short order > I can browse RPMs. In 8.1 the same actions bring up Nautilus, which is > a bloated pig of a program, and I wait and wait while it loads the same > info in about three times the time it takes GMC. Granted, this is Gnome > rather than Mandrake per se, but this graphics intensive, take the poor > dumb user by the hand attitude seems to permeate the latest version. ah i see, you want the minimul thing. i got ya now! i agree, nautilus is a pig (and i am a bloated kde user most of the time!) i do think that is partly gnome, but i see you point. > In 7.2, for instance, if I wanted to run a program that needed root > permission while in a GUI as user, up pops a window that lets me type > in root's password, then the program itself comes up. Now, after I type > in root's password, that sounds like perhaps a missing suid or some such. i haven't had that trouble in any version. > The reason > I abandoned Microshaft several years ago in the first place was that, > in addition to MS's outrageous corporate behavior, I got tired of having > my software dictate to me. agree there! though the wizards are getting close to out-o-control there are signs they are getting smarter. it is nice to see the kde wizard want to walk me through everything first boot, but still include the "cancel" button.... -- "We know what we are, but not what we may become" -William Shakespeare shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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