Re: [newbie] point one?
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 16:47, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >There > is NO match for Galeon ... on Win/Mac :) ... And the choir sang, "Amen"! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] point one?
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:43:55 -0400, Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree! That's one real annoying thing about Netscape. > > I would suggest to you Opera then. I think I have like 8 diferent browsers > installed on my machine, but that's the one I use. I use Netscape for the > JAVA applets like chat.yahoo.com and things like that, but for the most > part, I don't use "Nutscrape" at all. > > And Galeon should work in KDE form what I understand. I use Enlightenment > on my workstation at home, and at other "remote offices" I use Afterstep. > (Afterstep isn't bad, but I like Enlightenment much better!) I then use > FVWM2 at work. KDE was too Windows-y for me. I was trying to distance my > self from Windows all together! > tdh Galeon works fine in KDE, from my experience. I like it because it has both a multiple document interface (like Opera) _and_ a single document interface (multiple windows, like most other browsers). You can have several tabs open in each window, and you can save the tabbed/windowed sessions to files for later retrieval. Another great thing is that it uses Mozilla's Gecko for rendering, which IMHO is the fastest and most accurate HTML rendering engine on the planet. It is very configurable, and the most frequently-used controls are within easy reach from the menus (unlike the other browsers). It also uses the XBEL bookmarking format, just like Konqueror. I'm a bit of a browser-junkie. I have found that I like to browse different kinds of sites in different ways, so I end up frequently switching between Galeon (with its good combination of MDI and SDI), Opera (good MDI; different from Galeon), Konqueror (I like to use several frames in one window), Netscape 4 (only to do my banking), and Links (an excellent text-only browser with tables and mouse support). Fortunately, I have 256MB of RAM, so I can have them all open at once :) Desktop-wise, I am a GNOME user (another area where 256MB of RAM really helps :). I initially migrated to GNU/Linux from Windos. I was using Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, which had only KDE1. After a little while, I switched to Red Hat 6.0, with its GNOME 1.0 interface. I have stayed with GNOME ever since, because KDE (especially KDE1) is too much like Windows for my liking (Konq is great, though :). I always found the Windows interface to be limiting, and I used to have several third-party utilities on my Win desktop to improve its functionality. GNOME gave me a very configurable interface, negating the need for add-ons. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] point one?
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:58, you spoke unto me thusly: > > Jeez Mandrake, if you want to compete with Windows and MacOS, you're gonna > have to slow down. People expect a lot less :) makes ya wonder, based on the speed their apps mature, if ms has like 4 programmers in a dungeon somewhere and all the other employies are marketing and lawyers. -- "I am always here, I am never there, in fact I am never anywhere except for here, and here is where I've been. When I go from here to there my here comes with me everywhere till there is here, and here is where I am in. -Wembly" shane http://www.mystic-light.net/personal/ Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 http://dmoz.org cause humans do it better! Link different. Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] point one?
I agree! That's one real annoying thing about Netscape. I would suggest to you Opera then. I think I have like 8 diferent browsers installed on my machine, but that's the one I use. I use Netscape for the JAVA applets like chat.yahoo.com and things like that, but for the most part, I don't use "Nutscrape" at all. And Galeon should work in KDE form what I understand. I use Enlightenment on my workstation at home, and at other "remote offices" I use Afterstep. (Afterstep isn't bad, but I like Enlightenment much better!) I then use FVWM2 at work. KDE was too Windows-y for me. I was trying to distance my self from Windows all together! tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 11:41AM up 8 days, 22:42, 6 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | on 10/3/01 10:12 AM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > I've never used Galeon, but mainly because I've always just disliked GNOME. | > The only thing I like about GNOME would be GIMP. But I really like Opera! | | I still haven't found a unix web browser I really like yet. I just tried | Galeon for the first time last night, and it looks promising. But only if it | works in KDE, I also don't like gnome. | | > Never any font problems, and one thing I've hated about Netscape, is it's | > resizing issue. | | What I've hated about Netscape for years is that resizing the window causes | Netscape to rerequest the webpage. Its already got the *&$(ing data, just | reflow it! | | Matt | | | _ | Do You Yahoo!? | Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
