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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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Dale |
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:-) :-) |