Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:21:17 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9902020917470.22870-100000@mercury.webnology.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902020359080.47466-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> All of the above are advanced (ok, ok... more advanced than a new newbie)
> user items that people like you and me will hack on.
The virtual desktops might be new for people not use MGA QuickDesk or
Diamond's InControl Tools on their Winblows box, but I know plenty of
people I wouldn't call "experts" that depend on Alt-Tab to switch windows
and Alt-F-x to close applications on their M$ OS of choice.
> My idea for calling for KDE is that it can be done AS IS. To require work
> and customization destroys my whole argument and takes us right back to
> programming some sort of custom work intensive desktop. This would have to
> pull developers off tech issues and would therefore be harder to support.
Not entirely. I think it's worth it to at least put some snazzy FreeBSD
wallpaper and or icons about. We don't have to throw ourselves into this,
but we shouldn't half-ass it, etiher.
Cheers,
Mick
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