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KDE Gets The Hat

Posted by michael on from the kat-in-the-hat dept.

minkwe writes "Tension is currently rising between the KDE and GNOME followers, following the release of the new beta to Red Hat's upcoming distribution. Neither group appears to be satisfied with the fact that Red Hat has null-ified the difference between the two desktop environments."

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  1. screenshots by laserjet · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here'w a bunch of screenshots from the article to show what they are talking about:


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  2. Google Cache by BoxJockey · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can find Google's cache of the article HERE.

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  3. Re:grrr... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the google cache:

    Texstar of pclinuxonline, recently posted a bunch of screenshots from Redhat's 3rd beta release known as null. Redhat has made a huge effort via the use of similar icons and themes to make their packaging of GNOME and KDE resemble each other more closely . What do you think?



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  4. Re:OK.... focusing on just the themes by sprzepiora · · Score: 5, Informative

    As it stated in the foot notes comments, you can change BACK to the default settings with GConf. End of discussion. What they did is do away with the appearance of fragmentation between UI's while leaving the power to switch if you like/know about it, a smart move IMHO.

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  5. Re:Want Linux to be successful -- this is good by nagora · · Score: 5, Informative
    All I want is a desktop that does its job -- who cares what it is? A user in an office should never have to care. They should simply be able to use it.

    This is what I do:

    1. Install WindowMaker
    2. Copy over my standard WM setup and icons from one of the other office machines
    3. Copy over .xmodmap to change CapsLock to Control and the funny menu key to CapsLock
    4. Show desktop to new employee and say "The function keys take you from screen 1 to screen 10, the number's in the top left. Screen 2 has Opera, Netscape and Mozilla [points to icons] so you can use whichever you like. This icon is Pan which lets you read newsgroups. Screen 3 is for graphics: that's Sketch, the Gimp and GQView. Screen 4 has Open Office and Acrobat Reader and screen 5 is music players; that's a cd player and that's an Ogg/mp3 player. The email program is on the right under the calculator. Any questions?"

    Generally speaking that's all anyone needs to be told about the desktop.

    TWW

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