Re: FC7 and Gnome loading problems

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J.O. Aho staggered into the Black Sun and said:
news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The main similarity with Gnome2 and microsoft explorer, is that users
has limited configuration options (if you want to do something
special, you need to "register hack" in both cases) and the developers
of both thinks that end users are morons

Yeah. The paucity of config options is annoying. Every so often, I try
out the latest Gnome2, just to see if I can stand it. The longest I
made it was 3 hours. It would've been 30 minutes if I hadn't known
where to go to set "open directories in separate windows" to N.

while my KDE looks just like Windows. Similar menu on bottom-left,
clock and running app icons on right, app tabs in middle. Gnome has
three different menu types along the top... etc.
This is optional in KDE, one option in the configuration
Granted, I can change stuff around so they both can look even more
different--so, obviously you must be talking about something other
than appearance, as KDE looks exactly like Windows to me.
Seems you don't have tried out KDE, mine don't look at all like a
microsoft environment.

The *default* configuration of KDE looks similar to 'Doze in many ways.
You can change this default config in a lot of interesting ways via the
KDE Control Center. I remember fooling around with the appearance,
themes, and desktop settings for hours back when KDE 2 was released.
And file associations go by MIME-type, not just glob-matching, and you
can have multiple apps associated with a particular MIME-type, so that
left-clicking on a JPEG named "image.crud" opens it in Kuickshow while
middle-clicking that file opens it in Gimp. (And, of course, Konqueror
can handle protocols like fish:// or audiocd:// or vnc:// or obex:// ,
things which aren't part of IE.)

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