[101225] in RedHat Linux List
Re: KDE and Qt to become completely opensource (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Wed Nov 25 09:22:19 1998
To: criterion-consulting@usinternet.com
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:24:45 CST."
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 06:20:34 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Must say I've tried KDE, AfterStep, and Gnome. Of the three I think
Gnome showed the most promise, KDE was ok but left me largely unimpressed.
AfterStep is also on the dull side.
Went back to XFCE2 for now. Simple, small, clean, comfortable, easy
footprint on the system, and easy to configure the system menus, etc.
Best
rickf
fred@usinternet.com said:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> # #While I think that this has been covered, I'd like to say (I
> didn't #before) that I sincerly hope not. KDE 1.0 is a nightmare.
> I've #introduced several of my coworkers to it, to quickly have them
> find #bugs. My only explanation has been: #I don't intend to have
> you run it all the time, it's just a stepping #stone if you're not
> comfortable with other desktops. #Charlie switched to afterstep the
> next day! Currently no one uses kde #where I work. I don't want to
> discourage anyone, or spread FUD. I #just don't think that KDE
> deserved the 1.0 when it got it. #
> Hmmm... I think this may be in the eye of the beholder. I recently
> installed Afterstep (the other wm you mentioned) -- most recent
> stable version -- and was completely unimpressed. Aside from various
> cosmetic issues that are likewise subjective on my part, the thing
> tended to eat CPU time: cycling from 5% to 25% or more. Meanwhile,
> some of the included Afterstep apps wouldn't even compile out of the
> box.
> KDE is certainly not perfect -- neither in functionality nor
> appearance (I tried Afterstep because KDE is getting a bit
> dull-looking to me) -- but nothing else is, either. Personally,
> though, I think that KDE is mostly pretty solid (excepting kmail for
> special disappointment).
--
Rick Forrister <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>
You'll wonder why your data's lost
When you load your system with MicroSoft...
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