is obvious. Though there is some doubt. So in a few years when new markets are opening up and Microsoft (TM) Nipple (TM) hits the market, then maybe Windows will be able to pick up an obvious interface.
Last time I fiddled with a Mandrake release, its install program basically consisted of "OK, do you know what you're doing? You don't? OK, then, why don't you go have a cup of tea and come back later. I'll deal with this."
Not what I want for my own installs, but nice for the Moms of the world, isn't it?
That's what manually killing the process is for; KDE and GNOME both have process monitors which allow you to do this via GUI. The suggestion of an auto-kill for any "stray" process, however, is just stupid; there are plenty of things that you WANT to have running in the background, and an auto-kill mechanism might well take them out. Notice that Windows doesn't even do this, really - it will give you a "task not responding" dialog if something refuses to close, but it doesn't scan around for leftover processes and off them, because it knows better.
I can't help thinking you were about to suggest a little animated figure should occasionally pop up and say, "It looks like you're trying to [fill in blank]! Would you like help?"
I don't understand this complaint...since about a month after my first Linux install, I've had nice, pretty fonts - my Linux and Windows desktops and applications are pretty much indistinguishable on that count. I took the five minutes to learn how to copy a bunch of TrueType font files into the proper directory, run "ttmkfdir > fonts.scale; mkfontdir", and I was set from there. Hell, Mandrake's even got an automated tool that does it for you.
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is obvious. Though there is some doubt. So in a few years when new markets are opening up and Microsoft (TM) Nipple (TM) hits the market, then maybe Windows will be able to pick up an obvious interface.
Last time I fiddled with a Mandrake release, its install program basically consisted of "OK, do you know what you're doing? You don't? OK, then, why don't you go have a cup of tea and come back later. I'll deal with this."
Not what I want for my own installs, but nice for the Moms of the world, isn't it?
That's what manually killing the process is for; KDE and GNOME both have process monitors which allow you to do this via GUI. The suggestion of an auto-kill for any "stray" process, however, is just stupid; there are plenty of things that you WANT to have running in the background, and an auto-kill mechanism might well take them out. Notice that Windows doesn't even do this, really - it will give you a "task not responding" dialog if something refuses to close, but it doesn't scan around for leftover processes and off them, because it knows better.
I can't help thinking you were about to suggest a little animated figure should occasionally pop up and say, "It looks like you're trying to [fill in blank]! Would you like help?"
I've only had to do it a few times, and did it from the command line then. Wouldn't know about KDE, I tend to use Enlightenment + GTK apps.
I don't understand this complaint...since about a month after my first Linux install, I've had nice, pretty fonts - my Linux and Windows desktops and applications are pretty much indistinguishable on that count. I took the five minutes to learn how to copy a bunch of TrueType font files into the proper directory, run "ttmkfdir > fonts.scale; mkfontdir", and I was set from there. Hell, Mandrake's even got an automated tool that does it for you.