Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@...> posted
1213975533.11573.19.camel@..., excerpted below, on Fri,
20 Jun 2008 10:25:33 -0500:
> I posted to this list yesterday, but in the fatigue-induced fog in which
> was operating I probably put in the wrong from address and the email got
> trashed by the list server.
FWIW, I prefer newsgroups and thus use gmane.org to follow most of my
mailing lists as newsgroups. Couple that with news profiles that pan
(the main gtk app I still use) remembers per group, and I don't have to
worry about using the wrong address. Of course, news has always been
somewhat obscure, unlike mail, so it's not a solution for everyone, but
it works for me. =8^)
> A switch and switch back of window managers, plus a restart of the user
> account solved the problem - kind of a Linux equivalent of Microsoft's
> "three R's" technique.
=8^)
> I generally agree with you these days about Gnome vs. KDE. It used to
> be that Gnome had an edge on really creative and abundant software
> design, which is why I settled on it, but with the switch to GTK2 a lot
> of really nice features in a lot of apps got dropped and other stuff
> just got abandoned.
That was always my feeling too. GNOME 1 had some promise, just as KDE 2
did, but GNOME 2 went one way and KDE 3 went another... and I preferred
KDE. KDE 4 has yet to prove itself either way. At minimum, they botched
the rollout there. While I'll often run bleeding edge betas, 4.0 was
early alpha, there were simply too many missing features to be usable
here. 4.1 is supposed to be much better. I'll see, when it comes out.
I still believe they'll get there, but given 4.0, I'm not at all sure
about 4.1. It may well be 4.2 or even 4.3 before it's actually worth
switching from 3.5.x for me.
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