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From: Paul J Gans on 22 Mar 2010 22:45 J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.org> wrote: >On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:54:36 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote: >> What I want is a system that just works. >Do you think that other people want a system that does now work? Of course. Most just won't say anything. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Paul J Gans on 22 Mar 2010 22:47 J G Miller <miller(a)yoyo.org> wrote: >On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:07:11 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote: >> Shall I do penance by reciting "I love openSUSE" 100 times each night >> before bed for a month? >No, you have to buy 100 ordinary shares in Novell. ><http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NOVL> >Seems that they are on a slight downward slide at the moment. That's another whole worry. But lets not go there unless we have to. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Paul J Gans on 22 Mar 2010 22:50 felmon <nemo(a)nowhere.invalid> wrote: >On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:32:35 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote: >>>Starts to make you sound like a grumpy old man. >> >> I *am* a grumpy old man. ;-) >I find criticism can be useful, helps us look to improvements. or >according to taste, it can help one sort out one's preferences. >I'm a kde man but haven't taken the plunge into kde 4.x. at present I'm >mostly in Debian anyway which lags behind - ok with me, actually. >can't a script be devised which auto-mounts usb drives? thought that was >a task for fstab? do you really have to go to runlevel 5 to get this? Of course, but it wasn't a real problem, just an annoyance. The only difference is that you have to run the script. >(I used to do as you, first command-line and then startx but now what the >hell....) Exactly. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Paul J Gans on 22 Mar 2010 22:57 Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl> wrote: >Paul J Gans <gansno(a)panix.com> wrote: >> I have no doubt that KDE 4.x will work quite well for some value >> of x. What I do not like is that I have to sit at 11.1 for months >> if not longer waiting for that to happen. >> >> openSUSE will NEVER be a major desktop contender if it continues >> to make its production users be beta testers. >ANY Linux release in 2009 (and later) is using KDE 4 now as KDE 3.5 has >been declared DEAD by _its_ developers in 2008, they don't even try >to get it compiled in newer distribution releases. >openSUSE 11.1 was released in dec 2008, as was Slackware 12.2 and both >were the last ones to support KDE 3.5. >The same goes for kubuntu, the 9.x versions do NOT support KDE 3 anymore >(and the ubuntu ones without the k of course uses gnome as the default >desktop). >For Slackware (13.0) Pat did a last try to get KDE3 compiled and released >that as "unsupported, NOT to be changed anymore", so when it doesn't >run in 13.1 anymore, bad luck. I both know and understand that. And I understand the position of the programmers. But too few of them seem to be trying too many changes at once. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Paul J Gans on 22 Mar 2010 23:04
Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl> wrote: >Paul J Gans <gansno(a)panix.com> wrote: >> One of the neat things about KDE 3.5 is that if I center button >> click on the "fullsize" icon on the top right hand edge of the >> Konsole window, I get a screen that is as wide as it was before >> but runs from the top to the bottom of the screen. >That isn't KDE specific. Even my old xfce 4.2 already did that >(and "right button" click does a horizontal maximize). Thread drift. This has nothing to do with the subject. The response here is to the question of why one might want to resize windows. >Although it wasn't automatic, I even already had something like that >working (configured in its config) in fvwm-2 (in Slackware 3.x). >-- >******************************************************************* >** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** >** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** >******************************************************************* -- --- Paul J. Gans |