[Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network

[Romana Challans]

and everyone knows emacs is better than vi.

in other words, we can all do the holy wars. personally, the day i find 
the perfect system is the day i die - ie there aint no such beasty. a 
bledning of the best features of gnome and kde - well, now....:)

both have advantages and disadvantages.as dsl so (ohmigoddess 
peacefully) said, its about whats best for cai. actuually, whats best 
for recips, imho:)

and as for pete (one of the sweetest guys i'll ever know) being as 
grumpy as dsl, hell, all of us can outgrump peter, its too easy:)

r:)


David Lloyd wrote:
> Daniel et al,
> 
> 
>>Because it [Gnome] [is]  not easy to use; I, as someone who's been
>>using computers for 9 years, and worked on a desktop environment,
>>struggled to configure GNOME to do what I want.
> 
> 
> KDE and Gnome have two different philosophies. Both of these
> philosophies have their own place. We are talking about ComputerBank at
> the moment and the questions include:
> 
>  * Which desktop environment does ComputerBank (in South Australia) wish
>  to choose?
> 
>  * Are they mutually exclusive?
> 
>  * Do we give recipients choice?
> 
> ..and others.
> 
> 
>>If you would care to back your assertions up, then maybe I might
>>bother continuing this debate further, but at this childish,
>>ad-hominem-like rate, it's not.
> 
> 
> KDE and Gnome discussions can become religious wars. I'm not sure either
> of your responses (both Peter's nor yours) was the most well designed to
> stop such from occuring.
> 
> 
>>*educating* them with desktops, is a good thing. My current setup
>>looks and feels *nothing* like Windows, especially with I play with
>>slicKer. If you'd spent more than 30 seconds in the KDE Control
>>Centre, you'd realise that it's actually *far* more customisable than
>>GNOME
> 
> 
> They're different beasts with different philosophies. The Gnome Project
> currently has reduced a host of what the Gnome Project considered to be
> over-the-top configurations; in addition they've hidden some settings in
> user profiles or other places. I seem to recall you managed to find some
> terminal configuration settings in Terminal->Edit->Profiles or some such
> thing.
> 
> I could discuss the benefits of this or not. But the real question, at
> least for ComputerBank, is which one is appropriate and are they
> mutually exclusive?
> 
> 
>>>Gee one day with DSL and I get all grumpy :)
>>
>>It's showing.
> 
> 
> Our reputation has already preceded us...
> 
> 
> DSL
> 


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