Umm no. I am a fond user of both KDE and Gnome and think both have great potential but your look on this is just warped. There is no 99.8% open source. Either you are open source or you aren't. Open source itself might be considered 99.8% of free software as it lossens some of the rules to try to grab in those who have trouble letting go of outdated methods (often do to upper-mgmt who doesn't quite understand the concepts and history and why they work so well). RedHat was not the only supporter of Gnome, not by far, but they were a big supporter and did pay many of the key people to do their work. RedHat has a strong history of maintaining as much free software/open source purity as possible in their dist, unlike many dist's who like to give away other peoples work but not their own, and it was no doubt largely due to these concerns that they did support the Gnome project. If not for Gnome & KDE and their continuing pressure the QT libs might never have been opened so we have both projects to thank for this. Gnome is not RedHat's GUI, they just couldn't fully support KDE because of their commitment to the community until it was opened. Now that it is opened Gnome & KDE are treated as equals and I in fact always install and use both on all my boxes. Both projects are progressing very nicely and for almost all apps it is possible to run them within the other enviroment without problem. It is this competition of buddies that is helping both projects come along so quickly so we're lucky to have so many options. I myself have no trouble switching back and forth so I can't tell you what you may be doing wrong. There could be a broken package in RH7, that is why experienced users seldom use .0 releases. Well hope it worked out for ya! :) *^*^*^* Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. -- Albert Einstein On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Doug McGarrett wrote: > 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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