Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-11 Thread Reinout van Schouwen
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: > I still don't know how thing can be as they are even with Sun's enginners > working on usability. How much people are trying to do a good desktop with > gnome ? > And how many people does it take to write a good dialog ! Look, if you really don't know

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 20:51, Henri wrote: > The two MAIN problems under gnome are certainly file management > and...PRINTING Abiword has it's own printbox, so does galeon, so > does gnumeric, so does ggv...can someone do something pretty about that > ! You can't tell a new user to open an

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:00 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > I'm not trying to start a war here it's just the facts. Allot of users > > are > > Except you keep just posting stuff like the paragraph above, which > *isn't* facts, it's vague assertions. It's true, but unless you start > relating i

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Scherer
Le Lundi 10 Mars 2003 21:23, El Gringo ( aka Buchan Milne ) a écrit : > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:25, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > File dialog is one legitimate problem, it's well known and well > > discussed, and is in the works for GNOME 2.4. No-one can agree on > > exac

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Henri
The two MAIN problems under gnome are certainly file management and...PRINTING Abiword has it's own printbox, so does galeon, so does gnumeric, so does ggv...can someone do something pretty about that ! You can't tell a new user to open an xterm and type "lpr"...and what if you want to pri

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:25, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > > File dialog is one legitimate problem, it's well known and well > discussed, and is in the works for GNOME 2.4. No-one can agree on > exactly what to do with it, thou

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:25, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > Le lun 10/03/2003 à 14:00, Adam Williamson a écrit : > > ...can you back up the argument that KDE 3 is "simpler" than GNOME 2? > > > Well I would answer you but Jean Michael has done a better job of explaining. > > I don't see that anywhere..

Re: OT: desktop advocacy (was Re: [Cooker] whose bright idea?)

2003-03-10 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Le lun 10/03/2003 à 14:00, Adam Williamson a écrit : > ...can you back up the argument that KDE 3 is "simpler" than GNOME 2? > > Well I would answer you but Jean Michael has done a better job of explaining. > I don't see that anywhere...but then, Cooker seems to have been missing > messages again