Re: viewer association on linux.

houghi wrote:
Vahis wrote:
It could be taken in such a way that someone is not willing to
learn what KDE and/or Konqueror are capable of doing.

I just learned what k3b is capable of doing. I just don't like it.

I use it myself for burning CD:s or DVD:s.

I do this so seldom that I really have not had any interest to
have any deeper look in burning as such.

That's why I sometimes have a few glitches with (I think)
something in automounting. Usually I manage to burn a disk and
later I forget what the exact trick was with a certain K3b
project. Silly me.

Without knowing what software can or can't do there's not much
point in criticizing others for using them. Doing stuff by
clicking the mouse is quite appropriate as long as it works I think.

OK. I don't like the philosophy beghind it that results me in in
disliking Konquror. KDE I dislike for other reasons. First the fact that
it looks too much like Windows, second the fact that it standard has
icons on the desktop.

Matter of taste. We all like and dislike different things :)

Yes, I can change all that, but then I end up with something like
WindowMaker anyway. If I want something that looks like Windowmaker,
behaves like Windowmaker, why not use WindowMaker.

I second you with that.

Writing one's own GUI is quite OK, it also aims to using the
mouse anyway.

Yep and I do that all the time. Nothing wrong with it.

Ditto.

It's just that not everybody is able or willing to do it. That as
such or using the mouse doesn't make them stupid in my eyes.

I certainly never said that. Sigh. It is not the fact people do not know
that I mind. It is the fact that people do not want to know that I do
mind.

People usually want to know about things they are interested in.
Having to or wanting to use computers for different things
doesn't make computers or their OS as such interesting to everybody.

Am I guilty of that sometimes myself? You bet!

Does not stop me from being convinced that having several tools doing
specific things is better then one tool that does everything.

Bad tools are the worst I know. They make your nuts round and
your knuckles angular.


Please don't tell me that YMMV and that this is a personal point of view
and so on. If anybody else wants it any other way, great. That is what
Linux is about: choice.

As long as you are aware of the fact that you have a choice to think
about. Some people like KDE, some people like GNOME, some like something
different alltogether.

Mothers... Daughters...


What I am talking about is the unwillingness of the majority of people
who are not even interested to look at something else and if they do,
made up their mind before they look.

The thing in IMHO is that first you need know what you need or
want to do and then you get the best tools to do that. What the
tools are depends on the job.

For example I sure would like to find a substitute for CorelDRAW.
But it's the best thing for its purpose for the time being and
that's it. (X3)

These both require running VMWare and I don't have enough
processing power for running that so I have substituted VMWare
with windows altogether on one box for these two programs.

My next box will have enough Newtonmeters... :)

Each time a new SUSE comes out, I try KDE and Gnome to see if I might
like it. I have ran XFCE for several months to gie it a serious look and
I thoyght it missed certain things.

The fact that I don't like the single-program-for-all is something I
have had for a LONG time. The fact that I have a Printer/scanner is
purely due to space, because if I would have had more space, I would
have bought two seperate machines.

Separate ones are good for having the other left if the other
fails and is sent to service.

The same goes for makeSUSEdvd. Even though it can do dfferent things,
the basics it does is make an installation source. I culd easily add the
burning process itself. Just add some lines. I could even add the
download provess, if I wanted. Not a real chalange, especially now with
the download.opensuse.org.

Yet I feel that is a task that should be done by other programs.

I've never used it...

Vahis
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