Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 22:32:39 -0700 From: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding Promoting KDE - Wait, why not GNUstep? Message-ID: <36B7DF77.6EEFAEE2@verinet.com> References: <199902021901.MAA07100@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Okay, so KDE might be easy to use for newbies coming from Window > > 95/98/NT because it sort of looks alike, but why add an enviroment that > > slows down the system? > > Because Kirk McKusick has promised that the number of MIPS that > are delivered to the keyboard has remained constant since 1974, > and we intend to keep his promise as processors get faster. It's > now a holy obligation. > > 8-). No coercion required; I only suggest it might make a nice default (not standard, not required, just default) desktop. Alternatives should be available. The key is to have the user presented with something more engaging than a csh prompt after installation. I could basically care less which specific environment it is, but I happen to think KDE is a better start. > Seriously, graphical doesn't imply Microsoft Windows. > > If you have alternatives, and good arguments for those alternatives, > then, why, it's time for a contest! > > > KDE is probably alot farther ahead than the GNUstep team, but with > > more help maybe it will move forward faster. > > I have to say that those KDE guys are maniacs. You really need to > go look at the current status of "KOffice". I have to agree. The amount of work coming out of that project is overwhelming. A KDE user make take for granted that they built there own web browser! :) A bit of NIH there perhaps. I wonder if they have considered welding that NGLayout stuff from Mozzila into the kfm framework... > I'm not positive, but these might be the same nuts who brought us the > ASCII art VGA emulator for Televideo/VT100 terminals... truly the type > of hackers we had in the US back in the early to mid 80's... -- Allen Campbell | Remember parents; do not 'over shake' allenc@verinet.com | your infant. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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