On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:42, Bill Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:40, Edward Croft wrote: > > <snip> > > > <sniP> > Bluecurve. > > is. > > a. > > THEME/default app settings. > > Quoth the Raven "Nothing more". > > Maybe it's me, but I'd think an RHCE would know that. ;) > > > Yes, I knew BlueCurve was a theme, but there was also writeups that they did stuff to kde and gnome that ended up breaking some things in kde. I probably didn't explain it properly. As I said to Brian, I think it was, I was tired and frustrated when I wrote that and frankly ranting. Let me clarify, when I first installed RH8 with BlueCurve, I was a bit put off. But then again, RH always defaulted to Gnome. I was always able to switch to kde and it would look like kde. With the advent of the thhhheeeemmmmmeeee BlueCurve, when I switched to kde it still looked the same. It apppppeeeeeaaaarrrrreeeed, that you were stuck with BlueCurve look and feel. I had also heard that people had problems if they attempted to load kde 3 on RH 8, so I didn't bother and learned to adapt to the look and feel with BlueCurve. I probably could have gotten kde up and running and dumped the whole BlueCurve look, but I was going through a divorce, lost my home, then lost my job, and a multitude of other things that left futzing with a desktop manager a very low priority. So I adapted to the default. Yes, there is indeed a lot of flexibility with Linux, but there is still a lot of shortcomings. A lot of time I am time constrained and would like it if installing software was as easy and as supported as on Windows. I remember back in '99 when Linus said that he wanted two things, games for his kids, and ease of use and installation so that his grandmother could use it. Well, we are getting there. My wife, just got married two weeks ago, uses RH9 now. She really has no problems. So it is getting there, but I still have trouble when I go to a music site and can't get realplayer to work right. I even tried Crossover Plugin, and that didn't work just right. I could futz with it if I had the time, but that is it, no time. On Windows, you download and run and it works. Okay, so the operating system has major problems, but most things work out of the box. I don't have to go looking up how to install drivers for webcams, scanners, et al. Okay, so I have an oddball scanner that was only supported under 98, but hey. I figure, if I am an RHCE, it all should be easy for me, but it isn't. I just about aced that test, but still can't get music to play at a website. If I want to play a DVD on my PC then I have to go and get plugins for the software because the system doesn't come with it because of licensing. Anyway, don't get me wrong, I am a supporter of RHL. I use it both at work and at home. It just gets frustrating sometimes when things aren't the way you expect them to be. Okay, still tired, still running my mouth. Getting a cup of joe and shutting up now. Ed (under the gun all the time) Croft, RHCE
