Overall, though, I'm still perplexed over the entire desktop war bit
-
linux is an OS that allows you to have YOUR OWN CUSTOMIZED DESKTOP -
but
unless you're a bit adept at customizing, you're stuck with mainstream
desktop environments - almost like in the Windows world - which I
despise.
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 20:28, Richard Urwin wrote:
Overall, though, I'm still perplexed over the entire desktop war bit
-
linux is an OS that allows you to have YOUR OWN CUSTOMIZED DESKTOP -
but
unless you're a bit adept at customizing, you're stuck with mainstream
desktop environments -
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:32 am, Len Lawrence wrote:
. As you point out other distributions
would also adopt Gnome 2 so there would be no advantage in switching
loyalties.
Glad to see that those more knowledgeable are helping you to eradicate the
problems. Good luck
Anne
Want to buy your
Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD
this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was
totally painless, and DVDs are definitely the way to go. Then up came
the user interface and what a nasty shock that was! I had seen
complaints on the list
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 12:35 pm, Len Lawrence wrote:
What this means is that Mandrake has lost a customer, and others will
vote with their feet as well unless Mandrake or somebody influential
applies pressure on the Gnomes to change their heading. By my calculation
they are at least 90
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:35, Len Lawrence wrote:
This is what I found:
Double-clicks all over the place - I HATE doubleclicking.
Open Nautilus. Go to Edit | Preferences. Under Iconlist views you find
click behaviour. It affects both Nautilus and the desktop icons.
No
Len,
If Gnome is the problem, leaving Mandrake won't help because all other
modern distros will use Gnome2 as well. Moving to a new distro would be
a pain and wouldn't get you anywhere, and moving to Winsux is out of
the question. So what are your options?
Miark
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:35:54
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote:
Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD
this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was
totally painless, and DVDs are definitely the way to go. Then up came
the user interface and what a
On 28 Nov 2002 15:26:37 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote:
Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD
this month, so I gave it a go. Installation on my old Pentium III was
totally painless, and DVDs are
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:09:48 -0500
Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Len,
If Gnome is the problem, leaving Mandrake won't help because all other
modern distros will use Gnome2 as well. Moving to a new distro would be
a pain and wouldn't get you anywhere, and moving to Winsux is out of
the
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:22:02 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 12:35 pm, Len Lawrence wrote:
What this means is that Mandrake has lost a customer, and others will
vote with their feet as well unless Mandrake or somebody influential
applies pressure on
On 27 Nov 2002 21:29:11 +0100
Meliton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:35, Len Lawrence wrote:
This is what I found:
Double-clicks all over the place - I HATE doubleclicking.
Open Nautilus. Go to Edit | Preferences. Under Iconlist views you find
click behaviour.
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:58:11 +1100
Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 28 Nov 2002 15:26:37 +1100, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:35, Len Lawrence wrote:
Well, that's it. No more Mandrake. Linux Format provided 9.0 on DVD
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