On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:30:07PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > I'm looking for a KDE person who would like to do a combined GNOME/KDE > desktop talk with me at the upcoming Linux Workshop in May.
There's allegedly a KDE developer in Sydney; go to the interview with Neil Stevens on the dot today, and follow the link to the world map, go to the enlarged version with names, and voila. I'd of course love to do it, but sadly no-one's clamouring to pay for my airfares. > My hope is to present and show off the two desktop environments to > demonstrate the flexibility and choice in Free Software, and to avoid the > ineffective and short-sighted polarisation that some new users are faced > with. Yes. This is a huge problem. Also a lot of people seem to be of the view that it's all or nothing - I use KDE everywhere for my environment, but often use Evolution, AbiWord, and Gnumeric, among others. As I just said in a mail to luv@luv, GNOME generally is very functional with not as much polish, whereas KDE has stacks of polish but can't match it for the functionality. KDE3 should be a small leap forward in this area, and I hope GNOME2 is a large leap forward in the polish area; I certainly hope it is. But yeah. Why restrict yourself to the one? I find my hybrid of KDE/GNOME works excellently. > [ Yes, this does exclude the amazing choice outside the scope of desktop > environments, but I'm pretty sure that new or migrating users will find > GNOME and KDE to be simpler introductions to Free Software. It would be a > crime if there weren't any Enlightenment or "using Linux on older computers" > talks to go with them. ] I ran away from E after econf disappeared after 0.15 or so. I can't really remember, but I think KDE/GNOME is a much better introduction to the world of Linux for newbies. Craige can talk the anime freaks who want transparent panels (psst: transparent menus are a standard feature in KDE3!) through E if he wants. :) d -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Beowulf> mhp: 3.3GB downloaded yet <Beowulf> :P <agi> Beowulf: your pr0n addiction is starting to worry me
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