It was on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:52:11 +0100 when Roy Schestowitz posted
this:
> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Thursday 27 April 2006 10:26 \__
>
>> It was on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:14:10 +0100 when Roy Schestowitz posted
>> this:
>>
>>> __/ [ Ron House ] on Thursday 27 April 2006 03:32 \__
>>>
>>>> Ruel Smith wrote:
>>>>> I absolutely, whole-heartedly, agree with you. It's ugly,
>>>>> unintuitive, limited, and not very versatile. KDE is hands down the
>>>>> best.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think corporate desktop people in enterprise _want_ to keep things
>>>>> from the user, and therefore prefer Gnome. However, they're not going
>>>>> to win over the desktop in the corporate world with that hideous
>>>>> window manager/GUI.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> KDE hasn't got a feature that is a deal breaker for me: Gnome pops up
>>>> and tells me the size of a window as I resize it. When programming for
>>>> screen sizes, not having this tiny feature makes life impossible. Of
>>>> course, fvwm also told you position when you shifted, which was even
>>>> better.
>>>
>>> KDE 3.4 (if not 3.2 and 3.3 as well, surely not 3.1 which I use
>>> regularly) has this feature. You can have the windows dimensions
>>> displayed rather neatly as you resize. And KDE, being KDE, gives you
>>> much functionality beyond the very basics of this.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps,
>>>
>>> Roy
>>
>> KDE 3.5.x is even better, fast too! :-)
>
> I am sure it is better ("newer is usually (but not always) better") and
> I'll take your word on speed. I hope that transparency and shadow have
> phased out of that "experimental" status in 3.5 and later. These features
> were hungry for CPU in 3.4, so for practical purposes, they were better
> turned off altogether. They offer so little.
I don't know, I don't use them. IMO they're just "eye-candy".
> Frankly, the same goes for
> XGL, but computers are sometimes used to demonstrate work to clients or
> audiences.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
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