Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-04 Thread Gregory Seidman
Paul Johnson sez: } On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:10:09AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] } > I hope you're not suggesting that thing that comes } > with OSX? } } That piece of shit can't even do color control or terminal keyboard } emulation properly (ssh from an OSX box to your linux box and

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:10:09AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you talking about the xterm that comes with XFree86? My > friendly neighborhood dict [WordNet (r) 1.7.1 (July 2002)] > defines "garish" as "tastelessly showy". How can something as > plain vanilla as xterm be "garish"? What ar

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:10:03PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > True, but you're not exactly seeing Gnome with all the Gnome-specific > > libraries like KDE is... > > You are't, what are these:? Libraries for specific programs. Even some standard X and console programs come with thier own l

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-03 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 3, 2003 04:41 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > True, but you're not exactly seeing Gnome with all the Gnome-specific > libraries like KDE is... You are't, what are these:? libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libglade-gnome0 libgnome-desktop-0 libgnome-pilot1 libgnome-vfs-common libgnome-vfs0 libgnome2-0 li

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-03 Thread csj
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:11:39 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] > wrote: > > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does > > not. Perhaps others would like to read about it :-) [...] > However, one thing that tweaks me ab

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-03 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 04:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:39:48PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but GTK is *not* Gnome specific. It's > > called the 'GIMP Tool Kit' not the 'Gnome Tool Kit'... > > True, but you're not exactly seeing Gnome with

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:39:48PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but GTK is *not* Gnome specific. It's > called the 'GIMP Tool Kit' not the 'Gnome Tool Kit'... True, but you're not exactly seeing Gnome with all the Gnome-specific libraries like KDE is... -- .''`

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:39, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > That means twm may be the cat's meow for some, while someone else wants > > Gnome on KDE with XPWE. Me, I run Gnome2 rather than KDE simply because > > I prefer the look and feel, a

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > That means twm may be the cat's meow for some, while someone else wants > Gnome on KDE with XPWE. Me, I run Gnome2 rather than KDE simply because > I prefer the look and feel, and the ability to load up panels with > applets - and sin

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:11:39AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is that they > go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it as ugly and only I've said the same kind of thing for years, glad to see I'm not alone. At least both GNOME an

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:53, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, CaT wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > > > > KDE still sucks. > > > > > > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does not. Perhaps > > > others would lik

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does not. Perhaps > others would like to read about it :-) KDE gets in my way in all the same ways Windows does. This is a Bad Thing. This has nothing to do with what t

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Walter Tautz [MFCF]
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, CaT wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > > > KDE still sucks. > > > > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does not. Perhaps > > others would like to read about it :-) > > Oh for the love of god! Should I put this

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > > KDE still sucks. > > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does not. Perhaps > others would like to read about it :-) Oh for the love of god! Should I put this thread in my twitfilter now? -- All

Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?

2003-01-02 Thread Walter Tautz [MFCF]
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:53:41PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > "After nearly two years of development, we are happy to announce the > > release of GNU Mailman 2.1." > > > > How soon can be expect it to show up in testing? > > A while from now. If yo