Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-04-01 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 01 April 2002 10:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Personally I think it's better to run E, and then use gtk+ and qt apps directly without the Gnome desktop. But that's just me throwing out another wooden nickel. ;) E is so impressive that Window Manager hardly does it justice. I used to

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-04-01 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:30:22 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: adrian olsson wrote: KDE sucks, GNOME rules!! See http://women.kde.org/events/london_expo/expo.html about 'No rivalry!'. snip So why does my gnome *every single 8.0 - 8.2 install* still not use my sound properly?

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-04-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 07:51, Robin Turner wrote: On Monday 01 April 2002 10:11, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Personally I think it's better to run E, and then use gtk+ and qt apps directly without the Gnome desktop. But that's just me throwing out another wooden nickel. ;) E is so impressive

[newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread mike cola
tryed 2wice now to install 8.2 on my box that was previously running 8.1 no problems at all (and 8.0) before that, and it all goes smoothly enough until i get to restarting and logging in.. kde gives me a error saying the dcop server is not running, and gnome just returns to the login instead

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread adrian olsson
KDE sucks, GNOME rules!! - Original Message - From: mike cola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me tryed 2wice now to install 8.2 on my box that was previously running 8.1 no problems at all

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 01 April 2002 00:49, adrian olsson wrote: KDE sucks, GNOME rules!! But the original point was that neither of them worked for this person (sorry, I'm unable to help, as I am still waiting for Mandrake Store to make a Download Version available - soon my patience will run out and

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread FemmeFatale
adrian olsson wrote: KDE sucks, GNOME rules!! - Original Message - From: mike cola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me tryed 2wice now to install 8.2 on my box that was previously

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread civileme
FemmeFatale wrote: adrian olsson wrote: KDE sucks, GNOME rules!! - Original Message - From: mike cola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me tryed 2wice now to install 8.2 on my box

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 18:30, FemmeFatale wrote: So why does my gnome *every single 8.0 - 8.2 install* still not use my sound properly? Hm??? Kde is fine. Cept for alsa resetting its own permissions *a known bug apparently* its fine. :) Answer me that one ;p Seriously I am *THIS* close

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 18:30, FemmeFatale wrote: So why does my gnome *every single 8.0 - 8.2 install* still not use my sound properly? Hm??? Kde is fine. Cept for alsa resetting its own permissions *a known bug apparently* its fine. :) Answer me that one ;p

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome broken in 8.2 for me

2002-03-31 Thread David
FemmeFatale said onto me: snip FemmeFatale Believe me I'm inclined to agree... However E crashes significantly more FemmeFatale than say KDE for me too *sigh* snip Just curious, how do you crash your window manager? I haven't done that one yet (not Gnome, KDE or E). Dave --

[newbie] KDE Gnome

2002-01-28 Thread Walter Logeman
Hi, I have just upgraded Evolution from 0.13 that came with mandrake 8.1 to Evolution 1.0.1 I think it is all looking quite good. I used gnorpm to install the downloads. I usually run KDE and Evolution keeps taking me into the gnome Control Center - and suddenly my KDE screensaver

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome -- Thanks

2001-09-10 Thread Peter Rymshaw
Thanks. --- Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Johnson wrote: I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome -- Thanks,

2001-09-10 Thread Charles A. Punch
Peter Rymshaw wrote: Thanks for the info. Since I come from Win, I guess I'll keep things simple with KDE...for now. I just downloaded Ximian GNOME and it seems to be pretty easy to use. I don't like the term user friendly, because that usually means limited configuration. Ximian seems to be

[newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Peter Rymshaw
Is there a compare anywhere re the advantages and disadvantages of KDE vs. Gnome? Is this list and Mandrake specifically oriented toward KDE? Before sending this I decided that I aught to check the list archives and there was *nothing* with Gnome in the subject. I don't think that I want to

RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Johnson
configurable and the Ximian desktop can be configured to look more Windows like or more Mac like... -Original Message- From: Peter Rymshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:29 PM To: Mandrake help Subject: [newbie] KDE/Gnome Is there a compare anywhere

RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Lionel Pitaru
: [newbie] KDE/Gnome I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched. Both (K

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread hardcorepush
I too recently dl'ed ximian and went with it over kde. Its a bit quicker IMHO. I could never get kde apps to comile on my system so I was laways using gnome apps (gcdmaster, sylpheed, pan, gcombust, zapping). Nautilius could be quicker, I miss konqueror (i know i could run in gnome) and

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:28:35 -0700 (PDT), Peter Rymshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a compare anywhere re the advantages and disadvantages of KDE vs. Gnome? Is this list and Mandrake specifically oriented toward KDE? Before sending this I decided that I aught to check the list archives

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

2001-09-07 Thread Randy Kramer
Mark Johnson wrote: I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched.

Re: [newbie] KDE, GNOME start-up problems

2001-02-09 Thread andrew
Or you can just use the command to start x by typing startx Andrew On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Michael Scottaline wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from O-town, Mickey-ville aka Orlando, FL! I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Gateway laptop. Each and every time I boot-up the

[newbie] KDE, GNOME start-up problems

2001-02-08 Thread Andrew Breeden
Greetings from O-town, Mickey-ville aka Orlando, FL! I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Gateway laptop. Each and every time I boot-up the laptop Mandrake defaults to 'console' mode. I can't figure out how to start KDE or GNOME. I have KDE set as my default X Window environment. Any advice

Re: [newbie] KDE, GNOME start-up problems

2001-02-08 Thread s
will it boot to a gui if you type in startx? startkde? If not you most likely have a video card or monitor config problem. u may have to run xfconfig, but first find our your video card's actually memory, your monitor's horizonal and vertical sync rates (there are some defaults to choose

Re: [newbie] KDE, GNOME start-up problems

2001-02-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from O-town, Mickey-ville aka Orlando, FL! I have Mandrake 7.2 installed on a Gateway laptop. Each and every time I boot-up the laptop Mandrake defaults to 'console' mode. I can't figure out how to start KDE or GNOME. I have KDE set as my default X

[newbie] KDE/Gnome Interoperatibility petition

2000-06-29 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: This is to inform you of an ongoing petition to encourage interoperatiblity between KDE and Gnome: The article: KDE/Gnome Interoperatibility: http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2595903,00.html The Petition http://rivyn.derkarl.org/news/html/thelist.php3 Yours,

[newbie] KDE/Gnome background image

2000-03-29 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Hi; Wondering if someone could explain to me why - if I select a jpg image for my background in Gnome, it looks as good as it does in my windoze environment. But, if I try to use the same image as a backgound in KDE it's real grainy and I can't seem to get the resolution any better. Any