Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-18 Thread David M
Wulfy wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british about: Which do you use? I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-16 Thread Tony Arnold
Paul, On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 01:54 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: ** Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-15 23:59]: Maybe it is just a quirk of the network file systems then. I'm usually trying to get to a Samba share Ah! I don't use Samba, so I've no idea how it works. - which is sad since

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 16/10/2007, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't IBM just got involved with the OpenOffice crowd? In which case ODT should be supported by Lotus 'real soon now'. The latest release of Lotus does use ODT (and the other ODF file formats). IIRC it's available for free, but not free

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Tansom
** Peter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-12 11:00]: On Friday 12 October 2007 at 10:54:18 Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-15 Thread Matthew Wild
On 10/15/07, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:25 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: through it (I often want to dive into the CLI and head to the same directory I'm viewing). Have you tried the nautilus-open-terminal package? Since I discovered that handy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-15 17:57]: On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:25 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: through it (I often want to dive into the CLI and head to the same directory I'm viewing). Have you tried the nautilus-open-terminal package? ** end quote [Tony Arnold] I use Thunar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-15 Thread John Paul Wallington
Paul Tansom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: option required was 'delete'. Now I know that means 'delete this reference in the list of files to burn', but it was still unnerving. It put me in mind of the Mac concept of dragging your floppy disk icon across to the shredder to eject - I'm sorry, that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-14 Thread James Dalley
On the Gnome subject, I look to my youth and gnasher!! Silent G, the Beano rules! :) Jay _ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Mark Harrison
Alan Pope wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 17:30 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: 1: Moet was actually a Belgium (and there should be an umlaut over the e, but I can't work out how) 2: Freddie Mercury had an evil sense of humour, and the Killer Queen was MEANT to be a bit trashy :-) You really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 11:11:41 Stephen Garton wrote: I went to KDE that time because I wanted to use Quanta and Amarok natively (Quanta on recommendation for web development, Amarok as it is the ONLY audio player I can find that does everything I want, but that's for another flamewar ;)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 11:13:58 Tony Arnold wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:08 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:) Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions all the time. I heard a recent podcast of an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Arnold
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:16 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Hi On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:54 +0100, Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu,

[ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Wulfy
I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@) -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:08 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:) Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions all the time. Does it matter? :) Lie-nucks vs Lin-ucks vs Lin-ooks Guh-nome vs nome oo-bun-too vs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Arnold
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:57 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote: On Friday 12 October 2007 at 10:54:18 Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Lewis
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 10:54:18 Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@) Yep, Kubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread James Grabham
GNOME all the way (exept on my IBM stinkpoad 600 which has XFCE) I just cant stand KDE (although I love amarok and k3b) On 10/12/07, Wulfy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Tom Bamford
Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@) Has to be Gnome, KDE is just tooo slow and VFS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Michael Holloway
I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:) Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions all the time. On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:54 +0100, Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Tony Arnold
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:08 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:) Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions all the time. I heard a recent podcast of an interview with Mark Shuttleworth and he definitly pronounced the G!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Pope
Hi On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:54 +0100, Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@) I use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Daniel Lamb
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Holloway Sent: 12 October 2007 11:08 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use? I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:) Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:20 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Now then, is it brown or orange? :-) Neither, tangerine :p Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 17:30 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: 1: Moet was actually a Belgium (and there should be an umlaut over the e, but I can't work out how) 2: Freddie Mercury had an evil sense of humour, and the Killer Queen was MEANT to be a bit trashy :-) You really do know a lot of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Mark Harrison
Peter Lewis wrote: But even withing the yes, pronounce the G camp, there are two schools of thought: - Guh-nome (like GNU) - Gee-nome (like the human Genome project) LOL. Actually, it's worth noting that, until the famous song by Flanders and Swann, the animal the gnu had a silent g.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Scrase, Eddie
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 10:54:18 Wulfy wrote: I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@) Gnome,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Freddie Ruddick
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 22:02 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: You might enjoy The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and someone else. It's got a foreword by Stephen Fry and it's got the QI logo on the front. Full of corrections for things that everyone knows. Don't forget that it's got 4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 12/10/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 17:30 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: 1: Moet was actually a Belgium (and there should be an umlaut over the e, but I can't work out how) 2: Freddie Mercury had an evil sense of humour, and the