Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 06 September 2003 20:52, David Megginson wrote: Lee Elliott writes: I'm on Debian unstable too. Included in the problems I've experienced are incorrect panel icons that I can't corrected, problems with icons in some Gnome apps, panel entries loosing properties after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 07 September 2003 00:18, Jon Stockill wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Lee Elliott wrote: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. The main problem I'm having is that with Gnome 1 I could use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello all, I'd just like to thank eveyone for their thoughts and opinions on this - I think I've got enough to get on with now so time to drop this OT topic, I think:) Ta all, LeeE . ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Lee Elliott
I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. What are the major cons that folk have found with running kde? TIA LeeE ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Lee Elliott wrote: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. What are the major cons that folk have found with running kde? TIA LeeE I'm using KDE from the very beginning. I've always kind of liked it and I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread David Culp
What are the major cons that folk have found with running kde? It gets better all the time, but so far I've found that it's a bit slow. The mail reader, KMail, is great. The file manager, Konqueror, is pretty slow, but then part of that is my fault, as I have it set up to show files as icons

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 06 September 2003 17:01, Matevz Jekovec wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. What are the major cons that folk have found with running kde? TIA LeeE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Christian Mayer
David Culp schrieb: What are the major cons that folk have found with running kde? It just works. And it let you run X, gtk, ... applications without any problems (you won't even notice any differences, except the look'n'feel) It gets better all the time, but so far I've found that it's a bit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Matevz Jekovec
It gets better all the time, but so far I've found that it's a bit slow. The Oops, obviously I kind of got used to my slow machine then :). I have animations, fadings and other annoying stuff all disabled and all the previews in Konqueror turned off. I have a simple blue background color

re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread David Megginson
Lee Elliott writes: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. Just out of curiosity, what problems are you finding? I'm using the latest Gnome from Debian unstable, and it doesn't seem to cause any problems.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 06 September 2003 17:13, David Culp wrote: What are the major cons that folk have found with running kde? It gets better all the time, but so far I've found that it's a bit slow. The mail reader, KMail, is great. The file manager, Konqueror, is pretty slow, but then part of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 06 September 2003 17:31, David Megginson wrote: Lee Elliott writes: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. Just out of curiosity, what problems are you finding? I'm using the latest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread David Megginson
Lee Elliott writes: I'm on Debian unstable too. Included in the problems I've experienced are incorrect panel icons that I can't corrected, problems with icons in some Gnome apps, panel entries loosing properties after I've set them and an inability to re-configure old gnome apps such

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:52:10 -0400, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lee Elliott writes: I'm on Debian unstable too. Included in the problems I've experienced are incorrect panel icons that I can't corrected, problems with icons in some Gnome

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-06 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Lee Elliott wrote: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. The main problem I'm having is that with Gnome 1 I could use differnent windows managers (and preferred enlightenment - since you