Silly question about panel

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 27 18:36:55 UTC 2008


--- Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 27 April 2008 18:57:05 Antonio Olivares
> wrote:
> > Also at that time, if I am not mistaken, Red Hat
> did
> > not put much emphasis into KDE that Mandrake Linux
> was
> > born using Red Hat as the base and they took up on
> KDE
> > and made it look better than Red Hat.  So in some
> ways
> > Anne, you have used Mandrake Linux and now
> Mandriva,
> > you like KDE and as you have mentioned you will
> also
> > run Mandriva 2008.0 or 2008.1 because Fedora's KDE
> is
> > not there yet and you need a comfort zone. Am I
> right?
> >
> Yes and no.  I've used Mandrake/Mandriva since
> version 8, so there's a lot of 
> truth in what you say.  However, when I tried
> running rawhide leading to FC6 
> I found that I did like that as well.  Over the last
> couple of years I've 
> found that running either one makes me want the
> other :-)  Consequently I'll 
> have Mandriva on this laptop, where I need it to be
> 'comfort zone' as you put 
> it, but I shall also have F9 on another box.  I also
> have CentOS on my 
> server, which, I'm sure you know, is very close to
> FC6.
> 
> > Like Antonio M mentioned earlier, if you take the
> > Fedora DVD the default will be gnome, if you want
> KDE,
> > you would be better served using The KDE Live CD
> > variant.  I install both if I have the space, I
> use
> > k3b and some KDE apps.  
> >
> Sometimes I install both.  Sometimes I install KDE
> and one of the lighter 
> desktops, though I haven't done that just recently.
> 
> > FYI,
> > I install both KDE and Gnome when I install Fedora
> > onto my machines.  Which one I use on a particular
> > machine depends on which one runs better on the
> > machine.  
> 
> Absolutely.  Also, I prefer kde applications for
> some things and gnome 
> applications for other things - and that varies from
> one distro and version 
> to another.  Consequently, I may not have a gnome
> desktop installed but I'll 
> certainly have a large slice of gnome libraries
> etc..
> 
> > As for stats, I do not care for them. 
> > There's Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.  For
> Rawhide,
> > I would like to give KDE more of a chance, but it
> is
> > not beating out Gnome for the starting position.
> > Gnome is doing a better job for me.  my $0.02 :)  
> 
> It has to be a personal choice.  Of course at the
> moment KDE is in a very 
> difficult position.  It has to get out into the
> wider public for testing - a 
> bit like rawhide :-) - yet it's still very much a
> work in progress.  At the 
> moment there are going to be a lot of complaints,
> mostly because it's not 
> clear which things are gone for ever and which
> things are merely 'not quite 
> there yet'.  I do talk to several KDE developers,
> and am quite happy to ask 
> them questions like that - once I'm back from my
> holiday :-)
> 
> I may not see any reply to this, as I've just signed
> off for a couple of 
> weeks.
I hope you have a nice vacation :)

I agree with your statements.  We need to have comfort
zones!  
> 
> Anne
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