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Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> Yes, really. People boot a distro's live CD, maybe install it, and make |
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> quick decisions about whether they like it or not. |
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Thats a different opportunity/customer, than one that was a faithful |
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and loyal customer. You cannot treat those (new customers) like you treat |
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'an old dog' or you are going to loose customers, every time. |
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> > Note, I've use a myriad of qt |
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> > based open source and commercial products on embedded systems. |
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> > Those efforts do not mirror the "attide" of the KDE camp, you |
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> > espouse so well. |
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> I've no idea what you are trying to say here. |
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Sure you do, but I'll be simple here. KDE is built on QT. I have experince |
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with QT and dozens of embedded products that use QT. None of those products |
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resemble any sort of attitude, like KDE does. The bloated, poorly documented |
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latest features, lets force it on the entire userbase by default, mentality |
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does not exist in any of the QT based products I've been involed in. KDE's |
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problems are the result of poor decisions made unilaterally by the KDE |
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leadership, imho. |
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> > > Either run Konsole on LXDE or do wht you suggested the KDE devs do |
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> > > and run KDE with the eye candy turned off. The former is probably |
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> > > more sensible. |
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> > no thanks. Raw X is just fine for my needs, wants and desires. |
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> Like I said, but you seemed to ignore, run Konsole on LXDE to get all you |
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> need. I've found Konsole to be one of the best terminals out there, |
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> irrespective of whether you use KDE or not, although Terminology does |
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> look interesting. |
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The simple fact is I do not need a desktop enviroment that competes |
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with the applications I choose and set up to be flashy and featurerich. |
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That function is best left to the applications themselves, imho. |
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Also, I disagree; Konsole is wonderful, but I do not want anything with "K" |
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in it. Some of the postings below on this thread illustrate part of the |
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problem (walter et. al.) some of the issues were configuring the collection |
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of small config files under the ~./<user> section. I also found this little gem: |
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x11-terms/mrxvt : Description: Multi-tabbed rxvt clone with XFT, |
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transparent background and CJK support. |
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My current machine is so fast (only partially(mostly?) due to dumping KDE); |
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and i have yet to strip-small the kernel and overclock the processors. |
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After all, if you remember, you gave me some solid advise on the water |
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cooler setups, some time ago. |
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Alan's little script-kiddy-ricers motivated me a while back to take |
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another look at the ultimate ricer_kernel option. It's the simple |
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"-Os". Alan never even mentioned to his ricer offspring to try the "-O3" |
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option, as I think he want somebody else to send then on that odessy |
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of wasted time. |
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Now my puter, is skinny and getting ready to run hot with a |
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small kernal and an openbox looknfeel. It's got me so motivated; I am |
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actually waking up at 4am, just to play and shop for "size 2 bikini" |
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applications for my new girl! Going minimal has this old_dog happy and |
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howling at the moon again, on Friday nights...... |
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You see in here Florida, we do rate, compare and (de)grade our computational |
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resources. Minimal is always sexy, particularly with *ware. |
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We are a gregarious lot and we do like to collect at the beaches to see |
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what's hot and what's not.....ymmv. |
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peace and good hunting, |
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James |