good point about the qwerty keyboard. i guess i didn't fully explain what i mean about the menus changing.
in winxp (and i think 98se, w2k etc), the entire programs menu changes and stuff moves around based on your useage. in kde (unless you are running a significantly different version than me) the kpanel has a specific area where it has a quick list of K-stuff you use (at least it is supposed to). i am a creature of habit, and i hate it when things move behind my back, so i don't like my menus constantly changing. i know it sounds trivial, but it is just one instance when "big brother" thinks they know best about what i need and want. i will admit to being a control freak. there is very little that i like to automagically happen unless of course i was the one who told the automagic to happen. on a side note about the kpanel not remembering the console programs you use most often, i suppose you could write a script that keeps track of that and updates the panel if you wanted to. oh ya, i had to dig around a fair bit on the ms site to find out how to turn off that lousy menu rearranging garbage (#$%#$%$#%^%^!!!) ;-) you have to add some things in the registry. btw, if anyone who finds themselves dual-booting or whatever and also wants to turn it off, let me know and i will post the link. so, i guess my big beef, the menu thing is just a symptom, is about choice. i chose linux because _I_ get to decide what it looks like or what things go on automagically. anyways, i think i have just proved dvorak's point about the fanatism. oh heck..... LONG LIVE THE CULT!!! :-D moose. On March 10, 2002 01:54 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 10 March 2002 21:09, mooseman wrote: > > "The steadiest player" ??!!!??? > > read that: he who has run down, bought out or otherwise cut the throat > > of. and/or he who has the biggest FUD department. > > > > besides that, jazziness (ie:media hype) should not be the determining > > factor of which OS you use. a product stands on its own merits, not the > > colour of the minute media 'jazziness'. > > Unfortunately, the reverse is often the case. Why do you think we're still > using qwerty keyboards? > > > some of the reasons why i switched are: system stability, security, i > > hate features like user tracking (remembering which menu items i click > > most often), > > Actually, KDE does that, it just has a very weird idea about what programs > I use (presumably because it tracks the programs I open from the menu, > rather than icons or the command line - in other words the programs I use > least!). > > Robin ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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