>>>>> "Kent" == Kent Schumacher <kent at structural-wood.com> writes:

    Kent> 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

    Kent> FYI, I just upggraded my home computers to RedHat 9, and Nautilus
    Kent> associates all OpenOffice and StarOffice documents with OpenOffice.

    Kent> Also, nautilus is *vastly* faster now.

Cool!  Maybe I can move my wife to it.  I find that KDE has far too
many buttons and things for her.  Too many ways to do one thing.  Fine
for people like me, but the simpler the better for many.  Most people
don't need to have the option to open a document 4 different ways
(especially when to do so you have to type the ugly executable name,
instead of the readable name the icon has....).

In my next life maybe I'll try to make a novice-usable desktop. :-)

R





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