From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 25 18:39:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA51D37B422 for ; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:39:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.mybox.zip ([207.214.149.75]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GDX00ADO5YA1A@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by zippy.mybox.zip (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60589189A; Fri, 25 May 2001 18:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:39:32 -0700 From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: The desktop apathy In-reply-to: ; from fredrik@speechcraft.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:27:56PM +0000 To: Fredrik Olausson Cc: chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010525183932.B742@zippy.mybox.zip> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:27:56PM +0000, Fredrik Olausson wrote: > What do you all think? Ximian had a rediculous business model. Of course they went under. Does that mean that X is bad for the desktop? Nahh. In fact, I've found that my biggest wish for KDE at this point is more speed, less overhead, etc. Save a word processor (which WP/X does pretty well), I've found pretty much everything I need in KDE and a handful of Gtk+ apps. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message