Indeed, if you switch from A to B because you like B, that does indeed not imply that you like A.
But; hypothetically:
I don't like beer brand A though I have never tasted it. I do like beer brand B very much.
I see somebody unknown to me drinking brand B. That person tells me that he has been drinking brand A for most of his life but likes brand B better now.
This WILL make me more interested in brand A and I will surely want to know if I've missed anything.
Then I find out that brand A is not available in my country anymore.
That is somewhat how I look at the situation.
A = CDE B = Gnome my country = linux
So, when I wrote how I'm interested in CDE now, because Unixes switched to Gnome, you couldn't see how I did not intend that as a flame even though I specifically wrote that it could be read as a flame, but was not intended like that, you replied with:
"No matter how many times I read that first sentence, it still sounds flamy. You trash GNOME, you don't say why you don't like it. Pretty typical first shot in a flame war."
As a response I told you that I love gnome and use nothing else, and hoped to clear up my view for you.
After that you come with a totally unrelated analogy that IS logically flawed, because a switch from A to B does not EXCLUDE that I like A. Those things logically stand apart but in a world that does not only involve logic, because of the switch event, there was a bigger likelyhood that I would have liked CDE.
And if you want to know; I made you my friend on slashdot this afternoon because when I got the feeling you were provoking me I wanted to see if it is worth the discussion; and it is worth the discussion because I like your other posts a lot and therefore would like to make myself clear to you.
I wanted to have a smart-ass reply on your message about you not being obligated to have it in your panel and that other software also depends on mono.
Then I though; you are partly right; why use mono for a note-taking application?
It's for many users much like notepad on java.
In your case I would look for an alternative note-taking-thingy for GTK if you need one.
The same for me; I don't use beagle because I don't like it archiving my personal files (and popping them up for arbitrary searches by others) on seemingly arbitrary moments of the day.
If you have parts of the DE ask resources from time to time - "Did alsa change volumes? Did alsa change volumes? Did alsa change volumes?" - then it has to do with that.
The sound volume management is part of the DE, right?
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If Vista is going to be 'Windows' final interface' than any change is permitted.
If the change implies that Windows is going to lose the final; that is nice too.
In a democracy, shouldn't we, the people, be deciding if we are allowed to copy anything we want?
Thanks for the tip.
Cheers,
Murphy
Why do they insist on calling it a downgrade?
You posting feels like one from a person who is ripe to switch to linux and dicide for oneself what tools to use.
Indeed, if you switch from A to B because you like B, that does indeed not imply that you like A.
But; hypothetically:
This WILL make me more interested in brand A and I will surely want to know if I've missed anything.
Then I find out that brand A is not available in my country anymore.
That is somewhat how I look at the situation.
A = CDE
B = Gnome
my country = linux
So, when I wrote how I'm interested in CDE now, because Unixes switched to Gnome, you couldn't see how I did not intend that as a flame even though I specifically wrote that it could be read as a flame, but was not intended like that, you replied with:
"No matter how many times I read that first sentence, it still sounds flamy. You trash GNOME, you don't say why you don't like it. Pretty typical first shot in a flame war."
As a response I told you that I love gnome and use nothing else, and hoped to clear up my view for you.
After that you come with a totally unrelated analogy that IS logically flawed, because a switch from A to B does not EXCLUDE that I like A. Those things logically stand apart but in a world that does not only involve logic, because of the switch event, there was a bigger likelyhood that I would have liked CDE.
And if you want to know; I made you my friend on slashdot this afternoon because when I got the feeling you were provoking me I wanted to see if it is worth the discussion; and it is worth the discussion because I like your other posts a lot and therefore would like to make myself clear to you.
Oi,
You appear to be a friend of a friend on slashdot so I would not want to bash you.
But your analogy is a logical fallacy, no way of comparison and completely misses my point; and my point is what this was originally all about.
I'm not going to try to explain what I said again since you might just bring up a totally different subject there again.
Love,
I love gnome, I use nothing but gnome.
If unixes switch to gnome than CDE could not have been that bad at all since they later chose for gnome.
I never had the oppertunity to try CDE but I didn't like the looks of it (screenshots). But now I'm interested in how it works.
You must be joking right?
If you don't trust our car; check the engine and see for yourself!
That unixes switched to Gnome made me think that CDE can't be all that bad. (if this sounds flamy; read again)
But I can't find CDE in the Debian repositories.
Is CDE worth a try on light linux systems nowadays?
Let Linus worry about stacking your memory and suppressing your nice threads.
Worry as much about his favourite DE as much as you worry about his favourite wine.
First: Ask your distro's maintainers.
Second: I agree; VLC and mplayer rock.
"... operating system that uses a smelly foot ..."
At minus 40 celcius you don't smell the feet of a penguin.
I wanted to have a smart-ass reply on your message about you not being obligated to have it in your panel and that other software also depends on mono.
Then I though; you are partly right; why use mono for a note-taking application?
It's for many users much like notepad on java.
In your case I would look for an alternative note-taking-thingy for GTK if you need one.
The same for me; I don't use beagle because I don't like it archiving my personal files (and popping them up for arbitrary searches by others) on seemingly arbitrary moments of the day.
Aren't you glad you can use 2.18 while compiling this version for the next six months?
You try to sleep and then ...
Gnome mixer asks: "Did alsa change volumes? Did alsa change volumes? Did alsa change volumes?"
It would distrub me; as it would disturb your laptop.
Like somebody sleeping next to you repetitively asking: "Are you already asleep?".
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If you have parts of the DE ask resources from time to time - "Did alsa change volumes? Did alsa change volumes? Did alsa change volumes?" - then it has to do with that.
The sound volume management is part of the DE, right?
See for yourself.
The question should more be like; have I turned into a Gnome user?
I always try to love KDE when I hear something about it from Linus; but it's just not for me.
For the user perspective Gnome *could* be a godsent compared to KDE so from that view I have to say it surpassed KDE in some points for some users.
"Doesn't even seem worth an upgrade from 2.18" ... for me.
Sorry you forgot that part; no hard feelings.
I like pluggin my USB-mice and USB-keyboard better than my PS/2 onces and I never broke an USB connector or anything so it's not that bad.
if !(plug()) {
turn();
plug();
}
If that is your biggest annoyance then I should give Windows a try again.
I'm boggling my mind over that one.
But intel can't do 3-core by design right?
a: What 's the problem?
b: When I press here, here, here or here it hurts.
a: Ah, I see. You finger is broken.
I like to place these places in my bookmarks in nautilus.
It's a workaround but can save you clicks and time.
How about GNU Image Manipulation Photoshop?