WH Bouterse wrote:
> A rather dumb question, (again) but...
> why insist on using kde?
>
> Is it user desire to use the most M$-like
> window manager or?
>
> With all the VERY FINE Linux WindowMangers
> installed on Linux_Mandrake,
> I was just curious?
>
> William Bouterse
Uhhh ....
There was no question of using any other WM. I needed one I
could set to open a program when the *.doc, *.rtf, *.whatever
file got clicked. The applink/mimelink system achieved that.
And not enough applications run on Gnome/E besides which GMIX
is EVIL! I have seen it crash sound cards (and I have 4 of
those SB 128 PCIs here, too, and I have users who want to use
thier expensive computer as a cheap CD player while they
work).
All the rest of the light and handy windows managers I have
come to love just weren't for these users (I like IceWM
myself). Actually by this time I have begun to feel kindly
to KDE since I use it so much, and I have run some alphas of
KOffice which are VERY VERY persuasive.
Then today, I had a user come to me with 5 or six print jobs
backed up and the printer going crazy because it was powered
off in the middle of a job to clear a jam. I cleared the lp
queue, restarted lpd and thought for a couple of minutes and
made a script file and an icon called LPpanic. It does the
lprm and /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart instructions to recover
from this type of error. And I thought how I would have to
handle such under windows and then I thought how much more
hassle it woiuld have been to do under other WMs..... as I
was using webmin to equip every user with it. And KDE started
to seem pretty neat.
And some of the other WMs did not make it to the load. Ex.
AfterStep. I could not exit from it to other WMs so
I disposed of it.
Civileme
