Post #192,654
2/2/05 1:11:47 PM
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Got Warty installed
It detects my video and monitor correctly (without asking me anything) and it sees my SCSI drives and Airport card. So far, so good. Doesn't see my (SCSI) scanner, but that's a low priority.
I have to say, though, that after using KDE the spare elegant economy of the Gnome desktop kind of creeps me out.
Now on to CD burning!
Tom Sinclair
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Post #192,854
2/3/05 12:06:19 PM
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GNOME is like that.
When I moved from SuSE 9's KDE desktop to the Ubuntu desktop, it was such a shock; KDE is all shiny bubbly transparent textured stippled zillions of buttons, whereas GNOME just takes the one you were going to click anyway and throws the rest away.
This "stay out of my face" philosophy works well for me.
I'm still working out why the KDE developers think that it's more important to be able to change the contrast of one's 3D widgets than it is to provide a large icons and high-contrast theme for users with visual impairment.
Shrug, I expect.
Peter
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Post #192,960
2/4/05 12:00:21 AM
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Yeah, I notice that
and I'm sure it's great for a lot of people.
But for me...yeesh, it's like walking through a ghost town.
I need my shiny bubbly transparent textured stippled zillions of buttons!
Maybe it's a Mac-head thing....
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #192,964
2/4/05 12:09:51 AM
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ICLRPD * 2 (new thread)
Created as new thread #192963 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=192963|ICLRPD * 2]
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Post #192,979
2/4/05 1:43:52 AM
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Re: Yeah, I notice that
I need my shiny bubbly transparent textured stippled zillions of buttons! No you don't, and that's the magic :-) Maybe it's a Mac-head thing.... Well, I don't know about that. I like OS X as much as the next beret-wearing turtlenecker, and I still prefer GNOME's spare elegance.
Peter
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Post #192,985
2/4/05 2:35:42 AM
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Cow-orker asked if I was using an OSX theme
[link|http://dkime.com/screenies/screenie-20041211.png|This] is my home box, which looks pretty much like work except for different wallpaper, and the one at work doesn't have the lower panel. (The window list fits on the top panel on the larger display at work.)
Cow-orker comes over and asks if I'm running an OSX theme. I tell him No, it's a Gnome theme.
"But it looks just like OSX, it's an OSX theme!"
No, it's actually Industrial, which is the Ximian default desktop, with borders from Gorilla, a Mono theme.
"Well, they obviously copied OSX. Look how they put the start bar on the top."
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Umm, I've been putting the panel on the top for several years, OSX isn't even the first Mac to put its menu on the top, and even Windows has let you move the start bar to any edge -- including the top -- ever since Win95. How is great blue blazes does that make this an "OSX theme"?
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Post #192,991
2/4/05 7:01:12 AM
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Just say it's an OS/2 theme.
completely confuse him...
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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
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Post #192,992
2/4/05 7:02:47 AM
2/4/05 7:03:39 AM
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/ignore
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Edited by imric
Feb. 4, 2005, 07:03:39 AM EST
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