Completely agreed. The tested version (1.0.7) is two whole stable releases older than the current one (1.4.7), and 1.6 is about to be released with GNOME 2.10. The comparison is meaningless.
Abi may not be as feature complete as Writer, but it's also open source you know. I don't think input from the Mac community would hold back its development...
I wonder how long it will take before the parliament drives a revolution, kicking out dangerously corruptible, interest-conflicted and unaccountable council and commission.
You are right, in principle. That is why the 2002 motion was about open standards in the first place, and preferred open source when possible.
If all these reports are correct however, there's a working group across different departments that wants to strike a deal with MS for 245000 seats, with an obligation to really buy all those licenses. So the IT departments of the various departments (perhaps even municipalities) would have little say in the matter.
I am always surprised when them development people again and again announce "more stability". I guess they have a different kind of measurement system.
I guess their only kind of measurement they have, is if they fixed the bugs of the people that reported them. I trust you filed your crashers, so they should be taken care of now...
You're right, Epiphany deserves to be mentioned, it is the browser of choice for GNOME. And in case you didn't know, there is a separate package called Epiphany-extensions. Epiphany extensions are of course not as numerous as Firefox ones, but if you want to port one, essentially only the XUL interface has to be replaced by a GTK one.
There's nothing wrong with Mandrakelinux's gcc packages. They work out of the box for just about everything I've tried, and have done so every version for the past few years.
You never need to go to pbone or whatever, urpmi (when you've configured your main and contrib repositories) solves any unfulfilled dependencies you may have. Installing non-mdk packages may be what's causing problems for you.
When you're upgrading GNOME, either use packages which have been built for your distro version, or compile it yourself to a separate subdir using jhbuild or Garnome. If you did something else, well, you were just asking for trouble. Don't blame the distro for that.
If your Nautilus is rendering web pages you've probably installed the nautilus view from Galeon, or you're using an ancient Nautilus version that rendered HTML with the now mostly defunct gtkhtml library...
In this case, reducing it to mathematics ;
# IF (hosted overseas) AND (harm done in Australia) = within Australian jurisdiction
then the converse must be true...
# IF (hosted in Australia ) AND (harm done overseas) = within overseas jurisdiction
My logic skills are a bit rusty, but I'd like to see this one explained a bit more. If I'm not mistaken,
p AND q => r
doesn't necessarily imply that
NOT p AND NOT q => NOT r
because it might be the case that r is always true regardless of p and q.
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As a european I find it mind boggling that a guy like Bush can become president, basically do everything his opponents feared he would do (and much worse) and still convince about half of the electorate that he's doing an ok job.
What I find mind boggling is that the U.S. voters apparently are not taking the chance to remove the guy from Office who basically lost the 2000 elections but got the job unfairly by preventing recounts being done!
I have to admit that C++ as a basis is a much superior choice to C,
If you observe recent discussions on the GNOME mailinglists, you'll see that the GNOME community realises that it should be facilitated to create GNOME apps using higer level languages. Since there's a deadlock in the C#/Java debate, Python stands a good chance.
SuSE is KDE, Mandrake is KDE, Linsipre is KDE (with modifications).
Don't know about SuSE and Linspire, but Mandrakesoft does deliver a first class GNOME desktop with its distro, it's just not picked as the default option.
...it's kind of funny to read all this controversy between liberal vs. conservative. Over here in The Netherlands, the right-wing conservatives are the ones who proudly call themselves liberal!!
You should try it for yourself instead of reiterating hearsay. My four year old PC (Athlon 600 w/256MB) runs snappier than ever before with Mandrakelinux 10.1+GNOME 2.8.
toggle switch somewhere, or perhaps a drop-down to limit the difficulty of choices. Xine pulls this off quite well.
Funny that you mention Xine. Its backend is excellent but the graphical user interface must be one of the absolute worst I've ever used, advanced mode or not. Thank goodness there's Totem to bring some sanity back. =)
Take Abiword. It has bidirectional printing. I'm never going to use that. It has internationalization. I'm unlikely to write in another language enough to use that either.
I hear ya, mate. I completely agree Abiword should support the Chinese language only. With so many people speaking Chinese, why support something else? That will only lead to bloat.
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Tab completion is nice in bash; but GNOME strives for accessibility, and in accessible applications Tab means 'focus next widget', not 'complete'. With the autocompleting textfield, the need for (tab) completion has almost disappeared anyway.
Epiphany is here to stay, nowhere in the article does it say anything about a switch to Firefox.
GStreamer isn't 1.0 yet; your expectations should be set accordingly. File bugs as you find them.
I haven't read the reply you've received, of course.
But I can guarantee you that GroenLinks is as firm an opponent of software patents as the SP is, if not more. Don't take my word for it, but read their press release as well as the voting comparison published by Bits of Freedom.
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Completely agreed. The tested version (1.0.7) is two whole stable releases older than the current one (1.4.7), and 1.6 is about to be released with GNOME 2.10. The comparison is meaningless.
Abi may not be as feature complete as Writer, but it's also open source you know. I don't think input from the Mac community would hold back its development...
You are right, in principle. That is why the 2002 motion was about open standards in the first place, and preferred open source when possible.
If all these reports are correct however, there's a working group across different departments that wants to strike a deal with MS for 245000 seats, with an obligation to really buy all those licenses. So the IT departments of the various departments (perhaps even municipalities) would have little say in the matter.
You're right, Epiphany deserves to be mentioned, it is the browser of choice for GNOME. And in case you didn't know, there is a separate package called Epiphany-extensions. Epiphany extensions are of course not as numerous as Firefox ones, but if you want to port one, essentially only the XUL interface has to be replaced by a GTK one.
You never need to go to pbone or whatever, urpmi (when you've configured your main and contrib repositories) solves any unfulfilled dependencies you may have. Installing non-mdk packages may be what's causing problems for you.
When you're upgrading GNOME, either use packages which have been built for your distro version, or compile it yourself to a separate subdir using jhbuild or Garnome. If you did something else, well, you were just asking for trouble. Don't blame the distro for that.
If your Nautilus is rendering web pages you've probably installed the nautilus view from Galeon, or you're using an ancient Nautilus version that rendered HTML with the now mostly defunct gtkhtml library...
My logic skills are a bit rusty, but I'd like to see this one explained a bit more. If I'm not mistaken,
doesn't necessarily imply thatbecause it might be the case that r is always true regardless of p and q.You're describing a freaking window manager. Pray to $DEITY that Firefox will never become your window manager...
He's dead on!
...it's kind of funny to read all this controversy between liberal vs. conservative. Over here in The Netherlands, the right-wing conservatives are the ones who proudly call themselves liberal!!
If there's no chance to move them off Windows, I'll advocate Firefox. :-)
You should try it for yourself instead of reiterating hearsay. My four year old PC (Athlon 600 w/256MB) runs snappier than ever before with Mandrakelinux 10.1+GNOME 2.8.
I've already urpmi'd them -- thanks a lot! Nautilus 2.8.0 solves the only crasher bug that was left for me (when closing a list view window).
If you use Swing, try the new Gtk look&feel from Java 1.5.0. It's close to the real thing, including anti-aliased fonts.
You may also want to check out the java-gnome bindings which let you address GTK/GNOME libs right from your Java code.
Using GNOME doesn't mean you're forced to do anything, and that can't be stressed enough.
Tab completion is nice in bash; but GNOME strives for accessibility, and in accessible applications Tab means 'focus next widget', not 'complete'. With the autocompleting textfield, the need for (tab) completion has almost disappeared anyway.
Epiphany is here to stay, nowhere in the article does it say anything about a switch to Firefox.
GStreamer isn't 1.0 yet; your expectations should be set accordingly. File bugs as you find them.
I haven't read the reply you've received, of course. But I can guarantee you that GroenLinks is as firm an opponent of software patents as the SP is, if not more. Don't take my word for it, but read their press release as well as the voting comparison published by Bits of Freedom.