Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?
060120 Linux Java wrote: > I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. This gets asked regularly in one form or another & the proper answer is that Gentoo gives you a real choice, so who cares ? KDE got a bad reputation a few years ago, partly due to bloat & sloth & originally because Qt was not free software (hence others started Gnome). Neither of these is true anymore: the KDE devs have put a lot of work into consulting users & making their product quick & flexible. I was surprised to find that 3.5 shuts down in a few seconds despite my 10 desktops + similar number of running apps to remember & it restarts everything quickly enough at the start of the next session. One can & I do configure KDE to be simple & unobtrusive: the panel is hidden & has no app start-buttons & (of course) there are no desktop icons. I use the rather cute Apwal (in Portage) tied to the left mouse-button to get a pretty display of icons to start common apps, which means I don't need the KDE menu that much (it is easy to edit). It's best to install just those pkgs you need (eg I don't install Kmail). I used Xfce for a while, but its devs seemed to be reinventing the wheel, & Blackbox briefly, but it is only marginally maintained, & I do have Fluxbox installed in case KDE fails (it never has). I once looked at Gnome long ago, saw that it forced me to place its panel across the top of the screen (ugh!) & have never looked at it again ... -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:51:40 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > One can & I do configure KDE to be simple & unobtrusive: the panel is > hidden & has no app start-buttons & (of course) there are no desktop > icons. I use the rather cute Apwal (in Portage) tied to the left > mouse-button to get a pretty display of icons to start common apps, Apwal looks rather neat. How did you tie it to the LMB in KDE? -- Neil Bothwick Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?
060120 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:51:40 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I use the rather cute Apwal (in Portage) tied to the left mouse-button >> to get a pretty display of icons to start common apps, > Apwal looks rather neat. How did you tie it to the LMB in KDE? KDE Control Centre -> Desktop -> Behaviour -> General tab -> mouse-button actions -> Left button -> Custom menu 1 -> edit I assume I entered 'apwal', tho' it says 'Xterm' in the box now. I have ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktop_custom_menu1 , which has the single line 'Item1=apwal', so you could simply create it. Since installing Apwal, I've updated KDE 3.4.1 -> 3.5 , which may affect what is shown as default in the 'edit' box. Apwal info is in /usr/share/doc/apwal... . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How many people use KDE?
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:54:12 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > Apwal looks rather neat. How did you tie it to the LMB in KDE? > > KDE Control Centre -> Desktop -> Behaviour -> General tab -> > mouse-button actions -> Left button -> Custom menu 1 -> edit You hcan halve the number of actions by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting configure desktop - unless you've changed it. > I assume I entered 'apwal', tho' it says 'Xterm' in the box now. > I have ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktop_custom_menu1 , OK that works, so of. It gives me a menu with only apwal on it, which I then select to run apwal. I was hoping that I could link it directly to the LMB, otherwise I may as well put the programs in the custom menu rather than going through apwal, nice as it is. -- Neil Bothwick Famed tautologist dies of suicide in distressing tragedy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
