Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > On 01/14/2007 J Sloan wrote: >> I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For >> instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? And one single desktop - >> bleh. > > How many times a day do you even have to think about where something is > on a harddrive, unless your using CLI exclusively. You click an icon, or > a menu shortcut, the program opens. You do whatever and close the > program. Click another icon. Not that much difference. Even click an > icon to open a terminal "window".
In linux, I don't really think about where a command is - it's in the path, and it works, that's all I need to know. OTOH, editing files is an area where I appreciate not having to type some silly pee cee drive letter. > However, Linux does use a sort of drive letter. FD, HDA, HDB, etc. A, C, > D, etc are shorter designations. Especially when you have to add the > partition number, FD0, HDA1, HDA2, HDB1, HDB2, etc. It's all in how you > keep track of them. Not really. there are device entries such as /dev/hda, but why would you care? they are not part of the path. As an example, a unix file might be called ~/.profile, while on a peecee platform it would be something like C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\PROFILE.INI > I do like the multiple desktops. If I get one to jammed up I can open > the other and start over on a clean page. Kind of like the tabbed > browsing in Konqueror and Firfox. It's a LOT easier, and more efficient, > than having multiple iterations of the same program. It took Microsoft a > long time to figure it out in IE. I use 6 virtual kde desktops at work, and each of them has something specific going on - it would be painful and awkward to go back to the microsoft way of doing things. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
