David Cary Hart wrote: I don't think RH is losing interest in KDE, but I do have a rant about it. >>My LinuxPPC FC5 iMac runs KDE much better than Gnome (gnome crashes >>eash time I try to use it.) I did not in recent memory have a KDE or Gnome crash, it is all very solid nowadays. > I don't want to (re)ignite the Gnome-Kde food fight but I much prefer > KDE. To be fair before the partisan stuff , Gnome and Nautilus has improved a lot since the last time I really tried it in RH9 days. After the SuSE announcement that KDE was to be backburnered (I since read it was something of a lesser commitment) I tried Gnome for a couple of weeks. When I realized that I was staring at a Gnome desktop covered in KDE apps (kate, kwrite, konsole, in the end even konqueror for filesystem navigation) superior enough to the Gnome equivalents (I did not find a Gnome equivalent to the excellent kate) to be chosen over them, I had a bit of an epiphany that I was in fact a KDE person. I went back to KDE 3.4 and await FC5 for KDE 3.5. Afterwards I read Linus' rant and the responses and I knew where that was coming from. Then today a recent update broke Alsa in xmms for me, so I tried rhythmbox. There was no way I could find, even after I googled to find out about gstreamer-properties, to select a non-default Alsa sound channel, eg, 0.2. What an insult that is, to "protect the user" by not presenting even gstreamer-properties capability in the enduser app, no way to discover it from the app either. This "present simplicity to the user" boils down to "make the user google (and feel inadequate when they deviate from the usability script)". It's like the undiscoverable Ctrl-L in the Gnome File Open dialog all over again: Ctrl-L, the "obvious solution" to typing filepaths. In the end the reductionism in vogue in Gnome leads to the lightswitch. There is one user bimodal interface element and there is one pixel. It's perfect and it's useful but it's not what you need in a desktop environment. -Andy
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