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Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Dale did |
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opine thusly: |
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> walt wrote: |
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> > On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. |
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> > I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in |
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> > complete bafflement. |
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> > Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of |
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> > kde I decided I'd give it another go over our long holiday weekend. |
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> > I dreaded the thought of compiling the entire kde desktop on gentoo |
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> > (again!) so instead I came up with the brilliant idea of installing |
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> > kubuntu on a VirtualBox linux guest machine on my gentoo host. |
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> > The installation of kubuntu was brain-dead-easy (that's the whole |
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> > point of *ubuntu, after all) but when I logged in and started to |
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> > use the kubuntu kde desktop to do actual work (shudder) I quickly |
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> > found myself in a hopeless muddle (yet again!). |
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> > My theory is that anyone over forty just doesn't understand what |
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> > young-punk developers are about, these days. |
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> > When I was a young punk myself, long ago, the mantra was "Don't |
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> > trust anyone over forty!" (But I don't suppose you're old enough |
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> > to remember those days.) |
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> > I think today's young-punk developers must certainly feel the same |
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> > way about old-fart (over-forty) lusers like me. (You?) |
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> I'm over 40. I been using KDE4 for a while now. It doesn't get on my |
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> nerves, to much. lol |
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Same here :-) |
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I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre: |
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Activities. wtf are those? |
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By and large I get by on everything else. |
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And e17 is starting to look more and more attractive as days go by... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |