On Thursday 30 June 2005 18:41, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:53 +0100, Ten wrote:
Well, it seems as polished as KDE. It's a whole world away from Gnome on previous SuSEs, from what I've seen of them.
Personally, I don't enjoy Gnome at all (HCI/Uid car-crash), so there may be glaringly brainless problems with the config that I wouldn't have spotted, but I did work in it for a day, and used yast for some stuff and found it no more cripplingly restrictive than any other Gnome desktop. Integration seems to have improved, but then it would, since Novell are pretty Gnomic of late :)
Speaking as a long term SuSE/KDE user (I think I have used it exclusively on the desktop since about 2000) I recently decided that being SuSE exclusive was giving me a rather blinkered view of Linux and am currently experimenting with Ubuntu on my home system.
Having not touched Gnome since 2000, I initially felt like I had taken a bit of a step backwards from the bells and whistles KDE on SuSE.
But gradually I find myself warming to Gnome (or maybe it's Ubuntu) Something is better, I am just not sure what.
I think Gnome tries to be more like Mac OS and KDE sort of emulates Windows. Those statements don't hold 100% but certainly Gnome reminds me of a Mac more than KDE ever did.
Before, running Gnome on SuSE was a bad move because it gave you half a system, lots of stuff was broken and the whole implementation was a little half hearted. I am glad they have taken care of that (as you say not surprising given Novell's interest in Gnome).
Hi Wayne, Yes, I did intend sending that message to the list. Never mind now, you more or less told me all I wanted to know.
I've certainly been busy, and ended up making a right mess (well, not got things right anyway). Firstly, I tried installing 9.3 as a new install. Everything seemed to go ok with disc 1, except it wouldn't re-boot. I tried several times but in the end I re-installed 9.2 and then did an upgrade to 9.3. This went ok except it wouldn't recognise disc 2 (corrupted file during download no doubt. I'll re-download that one later from another mirror). Now though I have 9.3 running fine (except the fact that I forgot to change the settings when loading 9.2 for the Gnome desktop, so 9.3 loaded KDE as well. It seems I'm stuck with KDE now. Mind you, I do like KDE, but I was getting used to Gnome). Now though, I can't seem to get either of my printers working - even though they are recognised and configured ok. And the sound doesn't work either. Oh well, all jobs for another day!! I'm really loving Linux though.
Cheers for now,
Peter
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