Re: [SLE] (Newbie) KDE or GNOME or other?

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:04 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> Hi
> What is the best, KDE or GNOME or other?
> And how do I get to choose the KDE at login, do I have to install something?
> Pros and cons?
> Is there another that can compete?

Two things. Please direct surveys to the OT list which can be subscribed
to at the same place you subscribed for this list. Opinions are like
belly buttons, everyone has one. Also lose the sig or cut it back to no
more than 4 lines.

Thanks.

I think this needs a repeat once a month for the new people.

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We seem to be getting lots of new people on the list recently,
which is generally a good thing. However, some participants
seem to be a little inexperienced in how to write a reply.

Remember, this is not ICQ and Instant Messaging. You have some
control over where and how your text appears. Use it wisely.

In the interests of peace, good order, and getting lots of helpful
responses, would everybody please:

- edit your replies -- that means trim off everything from
the old message except the paragraph or two to which
you are replying.
Never reproduce somebody's signature and tag-lines,
unless that is specifically what you are replying to.
If somebody included a lengthy excerpt from a log file
or a shell script, or program output, then everybody in
the list received it at least once. They don't need you
to quote it to them again - trim it out of your reply.

- write your replies below the material to which you are
replying -- that means, either start writing at the bottom,
or else write your replies between paragraphs of the other
person's message, and there should be no quoted text
after your last sentence. Writing your replies above
quoted material is called "top-posting" and it seems to
offend some of the old-timers (the people with the most
experience and knowledge, whom you would therefore
least like to offend...), and it makes it difficult to follow an
ongoing conversation.

As well, if you leave a lot of untrimmed quoted text in
a message, it annoys people who scroll all the way down,
only to find out that you made them waste their time.
People who are receiving a digest version have to scroll
past all your useless quoting just to get to the next
message in the digest. You want to be more polite
and accommodating than that, don't you?
Good. We appreciate it.

If you are using KMail, then when you see a sentence or a paragraph
that really needs a response from you, highlight just that piece of
text
and press the "L" key. This creates a new message in the thread,
containing only the text that you highlighted, and addressed to the
mailing
list (not to the original sender, who doesn't really need or want to
see
two copies of your reply in his in-box). In other words, text-select
plus
"L" key does most of the things that list-etiquette requests. The only
thing that it doesn't seem to do automatically is to place your cursor
at a starting position below the last line of quoted text. I guess the
makers of KMail wanted to leave something for you to do.

If you are using another mail program that doesn't support these KMail
functions........ fake it.
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Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998


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