You need to understand a little history. When the QT libs were not quite 100% open source (only about 99.8%) the folks at RedHat got up on their high horse and said "Never!" And so they invented/commissioned "Gnome." Everybody else was going with KDE, but RH was "holier than thou." Now they feel silly, since QT has made the libs fully open source, but since they put their (gnome)foot in their mouth bigtime, they don't know any way to get out, and like Microsoft, they would like to foist "their" GUI on everybody. --doug At 23:19 11/24/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Dear friends: > >My thanks to all of you who wrote in with your solutions. The simplest >solution, as suggested by one of you, is to delete the .Xclients file in >your home directory. This also automatically deletes the >.Xclients-default file. When you type startx at the console, you are now >automatically taken to KDE (in Mandrake, NOT in Red Hat, of course). > >Question 1: Why has Mandrake 7.2 chosen to include Gnome (and other >window managers) and then has decided to eliminate the bridge to Gnome >(and the other window managers), i.e. "switchdesk"? > >Question 2: Why has Red Hat 7.0 chosen to include KDE and then addee >"switchdesk" but with a broken "switchdesk-KDE"? > >Is this just coincidence or are we seeing the beginning of mutually >destructive "distro war"? > >Am I angry about this? No, I am furious. Are you? > >Or am I missing something? > >I would very much like to hear from someone at Mandrake (and RH) about >this. > >Thank you. > >Benjamin >-- >Benjamin and Anna Sher >Sher's Russian Web >http://www.websher.net >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: >Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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