Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 05:45:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Robin S. Socha" <lart@socha.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFCE Window Manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006060542410.36894-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20000606165716.A54718@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: :Robin S. Socha said on Jun 6, 2000 at 06:02:26: :> Change your viewpoint: what does KDE give you? What is the added value :> of running KDE over twm? You get a bloated WM, a sucky Windos emulation, :> loads of crappy toy^Hols, random crashes (yes, I have rarely seen KDE :> crash, yes, I have seen loads of really, really bad apps using QT). So :> where's the added value? :I don't know KDE 1.1.x, but there's no way I'd call 1.0 "bloated". It :has a lot of stuff which Windows doesn't, and seems to owe more to CDE :than to Windows. But you can leave out what you don't want, just edit :the startkde script. I just don't get this "KDE is like windows" thing at :all. The decorations, the panel, and the apps are nothing like :windows, or no more like windows than lots of other unix things. In :fact the start button and task bar look like the only common things :with windows to me, and even they look different. And it's nice of :you to blame KDE for bad QT programs. CDE looks alot like the WPS in OS/2 Warp. Not having used KDE, but assuming it's a clone of CDE (as that was a stated design goal IIRC), I can only assume it also has an OS/2ish look and feel. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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