rpgoldman at real-time.com wrote: >>>>>>"b" == bradyh <bradyh at bitstream.net> writes: >>>>> > > b> I've been a Gnome loyalist for a long time and while KDE has a nice interface > b> Gnome/GTK has the programs (Gimp, Gaim, even versions of Firebird and Eclipse). > > b> Of course you can run KDE stuff on a Gnome system and > b> vice-versa so the only real choice is what desktop are you > b> going to use. I like the Gnome-panel (the menu bar) a lot and > b> when Nautilus (the file manager) works it works well. Lately > b> my Nautilus bogs down and won't display directorys until it's > b> killed now and then but I'm sure that will go away next > b> release. Metacity (the window manager) is very stable and > b> relatively pretty. > > The thing I didn't like about Nautilus is that it didn't take the > filename's word for it about MIME type. So Nautilus would try to open > all my Star Office (OpenOffice) documents (encoded in XML) with a web > browser, because it could see that they were really XML... I rooted > around in some mailing lists, and it seemed like this was a known bug > and the developers weren't going to fix it. Since XML formats are > only going to become more popular, not less, I threw in the towel on > my Nautilus experiment and went back to KDE... > > [Actually, this was an experiment for my wife's benefit. I hate GUIs, > and I *especially* hate file system browsers. If I want to open a > file, I'll just type 'oowriter <foo> &' and be done with it.] > > R FYI, I just upggraded my home computers to RedHat 9, and Nautilus associates all OpenOffice and StarOffice documents with OpenOffice. Also, nautilus is *vastly* faster now. Note that I use gui's for launching lots of xterms, but my wife and kid just won't do that... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list