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

[Peter Gossner <gossner@arcom.com.au>]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 07:38:22 +0930
Romana Challans <romana@timelady.com> scribed:

> and everyone knows emacs is better than vi.

Now there is a real war .. 
> 
> 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....:)
Yep
> 
> both have advantages and disadvantages.as dsl so (ohmigoddess 
> peacefully) said, its about whats best for cai. actuually, whats best 
> for recips, imho:)
> 
I guess I depends on their mindset ...

> 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:)

NO ya can't I am BAD, MEAN, SubLiterate  and Seriously Narrow Minded . I
once had a shower and hated it,. !
I am so tough my keyboard has stainless steel keys .. 
(I am also 7 feet tall and play flyhalf for Au)

Sorry Guys ... I was over the Top .. Sorry Sorry.

I do that sometimes ...


> 
> 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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