[oclug] gnome and it's suckiness

Rod Giffin rod at giffinscientific.com
Fri Nov 14 17:14:19 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:56, Shad Young wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:47:40 -0500
> you wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > And we wonder why more people don't switch to Linux. 
> > > Back to text clients and simple window-managers I go.  

If you've got an itch, scratch it - if you've got a glitch, patch it.
 
> > Amen to that. I maintain my Mac OS X argument of last week 8-)
> > 
> 
> Funny, in Mandrake, KDE is perfect, gnome is stable and works reasonably well.
> My only complaint with Gnome is it is not as polished as KDE and there is a
> large discrepancy between gnome apps and their configuration. My only complaint
> with Evolution was the speed (slow) , address auto-insert (not available)

Auto-insert address, by that if you mean auto-complete addresses, they
work for me.  It is a gnome app, and it does work with KDE, but I also
find it annoyingly slow from time to time.

Rod.




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