michael chang wrote:
On 10/17/05, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 17 October 2005 04:40 pm, Olivier Ripoll wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
Saw this in Slashdot.
Abiword beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/15/1312216&fr
om=rss
I haven't wanted a grammar checker since Windows 3.1 days.
Well, you could write a plugin for it, but I do not know under
which category of plugin it could be included in gimp... perhaps
misc or as an option in the text tool...
Sincerely,
Well,
there is more than one year that KDE had included spell cheking in
everytext entry. I do not see why in the future spell and grammar
checking could not go globally into GTK text entries thenselves.
Efficiency. As it stands, KDE is very ... consumer-oriented, toward
(i.e.) people who use it as a consumer desktop. (I know of a 12 year
old and a 9 year old who prefer KDE because when they click to start
an application, there's a little bouncing icon next to the mouse
cursor.)
I like Gnome/GTK because it has a nice, clean, usable, uncluttered interface.
Do we really have to start a Gnome vs. KDE flamewar ? ;) Well, why not,
it is always funny :
I mean, what I like in GTK and Gnome is the better colour scheme and
icons (Tigert and Jimmac work). And GTK apps usually start faster than
KDE's when you do not use any desktop environment (or use use a third
party one, e.g. XFCE, E17). Apart from that, I think as for being
"usable", KDE is lightyears ahead from Gnome. But I am not a Mac user,
so that may explain my feeling. I mean: Every time I try Gnome, I start
being upset and insult my computer after a while (10 minutes). I am
frustrated. I also sometimes have this feeling at work under Windows
(esp. when it comes to using MS Word ;) ). I never get upset when I use
XFCE/E16/E17... or KDE :-). But KDE looks ugly. E17 is probably the way
to go when it is finished.
I think KDE is not as consumer oriented as Gnome, by the way. Gnome is
having much more "communication" that KDE. Actually, since you can
configure nearly everything in KDE the way you want, I would say I think
KDE is computer-people-oriented, while Gnome is like MacOS,
artist/designer/kids-oriented.
That said, KDE is good for some things, too (e.g. KPovModeller, Kate,
when editing POV-Ray scripts (www.povray.org)).
Well, Gnome is good for some things too (e.g. Gimp, Inkscape, Bluefish) ;)
Sorry, I could not resist :)
Sincerely,
Olivier.
--
~Mike
- Just my two cents
- No man is an island, and no man is unable.
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