On 28 Mar 2002, Steve Fox wrote:

> Intentional. It is meant to replace GNOME 1.x. There are many more KDE

I know its supposed to *eventually* replace gnome1.x.  However, its going
to be awhile yet (see below).  kde3 is supposed to replace kde2, also. 


> people at MDK so they have the time to build it in the /opt directory
> until it's ready for inclusion in /usr, hence obsoleting kde2. But I
> have a feeling Frederic is already quite overworked.

I think this is the one thing I dont like about mandrake.  it seems too 
kde-centric.  There are alot of people(users) that dont like/use kde (me 
being 
one of them).  it doesnt work for me.  it never has.  I force myself to 
use the newest version every once in awhile for at least a week (so I can 
get familiar with the differences over gnome), and I always come back to 
gnome.  I think mandrake need to reassign some developers to help out 
Frederic :).   


> 
> I've been using GNOME 2 every since beta 2. Some of the applets don't
> work and such, but no big deal. The panel and Nautilus have been almost
> rock solid (and Nautilus is also *much* faster :).

I have tried every beta that garnome has an install for :).  Besides 
applets, and some other stuff *ahem* sawfish *ahem*, its fairly nice.  
Unfortunately, some of those applets are important to me :)  
unfortunately, untils some more porting to gnome2 is done, it wont be 
usable for me (except as a plaything).

I just think its irresponsible to *replace* stable software(gnome1.4) with 
very-much-in-beta-testing-not-quite-there-yet software (gnome2).  yes I 
know I dont have to download it, yes I know that this is cooker and meant 
to be unstable, but by people like me downloading it and trying it, thats 
how bugs, etc get fixed and the software made better.   Besides, they did 
it with kde.  

again, this is just a suggestion, not a flame.  I use cooker exclusivly 
and report bugs when I find them (if they havent been reported already).  
If the gnome1.4/gnome2 things isnt/wont be changed, thats just less 
software I can help make better.  and that would make me sad :)


well, anyway, thanks for the reply

David
> 
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