On 11/2/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 19:25 +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > > that > > I could access "Suspend" or "Hibernate" in the Gnome menu, but I > > couldn't easily find them in KDE on FC (at least on FC5). > > I agree. I love KDE and find gnome boring, but it is little things like this > that might KDE inferior on FC. The FC s develop nice scripts for > hibernation/suspend (all the menu items in gnome do is run pm-hibernate and > pm-suspend, as far as I can tell) but only bother to tie them into the gnome > dsktop. How hard would it be to just add a few menu items to KDe as well. Not > very. > > Similarly for compiz, it works fine under gnome, they even made a menu item to > activate it, but again didn't bother for KDE :( > > Heres hoping stuff like this gets done better once KDE is in extras ? The sad thing is that if you venture into the KDE IRC list and mention Fedora or RedHat, the crowd gets a little ugly, like real fast.
[ snip ] Some of you may have no idea how true that is. I am thankful every day that I rarely have problems with KDE myself, because I wouldn't dare go to irc://freenode/kde if I suspected I would have to mention that I was on Fedora. Similarly, there are always a few "unnice" folks at irc://freenode/fedora who will be more than willing to plainly state that if one wants to use Fedora , ditch KDE (and similiar comments). I myself have had such comments directed to me - the person must have thought me to be some n00b who would run of and use their DE of choice instead. -- Fedora Core 5 and proud
