On Tuesday 08 August 2006 14:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > > > Would someone please point me in the right direction? > > > > If you're fairly desktop-agnostic, you can try reverting to Kubuntu. I > > Last time I used KDE I wasn't too keen on it, but it was a long time > ago. > > > find KDE does a marvellous job at auto-mounting removable media. When I > > stick a removable disk in (either usb or pcmcia), it pops up asking me > > what to do (and i can set it to remember my choice). > > GNOME does the right thing with USB drives, CDs and DVDs. It's only > PCMCIA that's not working.
I'm not suggesting 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' but over and over everywhere you look kde is more polished than gnome ... Recently I asked this list howto avoid screensaver lock when closing the lid on my laptop (ubuntu/gnome) Martin answered about using gconf-edit. Someone else answered about xscreensaver settings (oops why 2 answers). Turns out neither is totally right and neither is totally wrong! Using either you cant set lock AND DPMS timeouts. They interact and do not work together (.xscreensaverec settings) KDE does it in the intuitively 'right place' and it works. Another EG I setup (by accident) the logout button to LOGOUT not give the Reboot / Shutdown / Logout options. Many tries at google, many hours trying every option known to man! Ah Ha there it is under Sessions! Again its intuitive on KDE. When I've said this before I've been accused of windows idiom and baby duck. The amusing sidebar is I've used a CLI for 30 years (sic) and I've never used windows, not for a single day, not ever! And still I use gnome? (2/5 desktops) Yes it's faster, got promise ... Hmmmm James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
