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On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > One thing [kde:4] definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. |
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> > > Comparisons with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment |
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> > Well, that seems to condemn v4 out of hand :-) . If it can't compare |
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> > favourably with its predecessor, what's it doing there at all? |
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> Read the post again. I said nothing about favourable, unfavourable or |
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> anything else like that. |
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> I only said that KDE4 is not KDE3 (doh...) so if you run KDE4 thinking |
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> you are going to get something like KDE3 you are going to be |
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> disappointed. It is not like KDE3, it is not built on KDE3, it is not an |
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> evolution of KDE3. It is different, and stands on it's own. Comparisons |
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> with KDE3 are unfair, sort of like comparing you with your father is |
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> unfair. |
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The way I read your words is equally valid. If I compare a later version |
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with its predecessor I don't expect to be disappointed. |
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> > I'm working quite hard at getting used to it (it's even the default |
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> > grub choice), but it's uphill all the way. |
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> Um, dude.... grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE. |
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> The dm does that. |
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Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate |
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installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I want |
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with grub entries. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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