You mean the 10 items in the context menu? No code patch. You can turn off the "Delete" command. "Compress/" only appears if you have installed ark/kdeutils and can be turned off. "Copy To/" and "Move To/" only appear if you have kdeaddons or it can be turned off. That are all GUI options.
> you would notice that they prefer Evolution for it's ability to connect to MS Exchange
But IMO you can't talk about "MS Exchange" being *integrated* into Evolution. It simply adds another button taking space in the main view and therewith still feels like being engrafted.
> Gnome also has excellent HIG guidelines, which mean that most applications perform in a similar manner.
There is no such automatism. Also there exists a KDE HIG with other stuff like margins being hard-coded into Qt/kdelibs. Can you give examples how KDE applications (of the KDE release, third party applications maintainers sometimes have 'funny' ideas), do not behave similar?
> I used KDE until version 2. That is when it started getting a bit cluttered. When you have more than 15 options in the right-click menu for a file, you know there is a bit of a problem. I think it is time for a spring clean.
You should revisit a current version. I have my KDE 3.3 configured to never show more than 10 items, and depending on the selected file type and what's installed there can be even less entries (no Actions/, Preview In/, Open With/).
Ubuntu will need at least another 6 months (2nd release) to catch-up with SUSE excluding configuration tools. And much more time after to catch up with SUSE's YaST functionality (if they don't start to use it too:-).
XDamage is standard part of X.org 6.8.1, and the SUSE 9.1 binary packages of X.org 6.8.1 also contain the Composite extension but not enabled by dfeault.
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The poster seems to prefer Evolution, so please note that SUSE's Kontact has also Groupwise and Exchange connectivity besides SLOX, eGroupware and Kolab.
The Professional edition has some commercial stuff that the Personal hasn't. I guess that the commercial stuff that is included in SUSE Personal boxed set (Flash, Acroread, Realplayer,...) is contained. Feel free to try and report!
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wiki.kde.org has those (Tips and Tricks, Secret Config Settings, ...)
There are first SUSE binaries on ftp.kde.org available - in some hours i18n and x86_64 should have also synced.
> Why would I want to use Konqueror when Mozilla is the most successful Open Source web browser there is
Because Konqueror does (also) file management and other stuff?
> I saw no way to switch my default web browser to Mozilla or Firefox
Control Center: Component Chooser
> I saw no way to switch my office applications to Open Office from KOffce in KDE.
? Install/start OpenOffice.org instead of KOffice
> If I wasn't forced to use KOffice, Kmail, Konqueror etc.
You are not forced.
> Also, GNOME has enough applications of it's own, so that would probably be a huge waste of time.
Good joke, there will be never 100% coverage of what applications for the other desktop exist.
I wonder when the GNOME camp will offer integration of KDE applications like the KDE camp does with GTK-Qt and QtGTK vice versa.
You mean the 10 items in the context menu? No code patch. You can turn off the "Delete" command. "Compress/" only appears if you have installed ark/kdeutils and can be turned off. "Copy To/" and "Move To/" only appear if you have kdeaddons or it can be turned off. That are all GUI options.
> you would notice that they prefer Evolution for it's ability to connect to MS Exchange
But IMO you can't talk about "MS Exchange" being *integrated* into Evolution. It simply adds another button taking space in the main view and therewith still feels like being engrafted.
Sure there are 'better' themes, visit http://kde-look.org. One popular is the within KDE included Plastik which will be the default of KDE 3.4.
> Gnome also has excellent HIG guidelines, which mean that most applications perform in a similar manner.
There is no such automatism. Also there exists a KDE HIG with other stuff like margins being hard-coded into Qt/kdelibs. Can you give examples how KDE applications (of the KDE release, third party applications maintainers sometimes have 'funny' ideas), do not behave similar?
> I used KDE until version 2. That is when it started getting a bit cluttered. When you have more than 15 options in the right-click menu for a file, you know there is a bit of a problem. I think it is time for a spring clean.
You should revisit a current version. I have my KDE 3.3 configured to never show more than 10 items, and depending on the selected file type and what's installed there can be even less entries (no Actions/, Preview In/, Open With/).
khtml is *L*GPL'd.
Ubuntu will need at least another 6 months (2nd release) to catch-up with SUSE excluding configuration tools. And much more time after to catch up with SUSE's YaST functionality (if they don't start to use it too :-).
SUSE doesn't ship KDE 3.3.0 but some 3.3.x snapshot from this branch.
XDamage is standard part of X.org 6.8.1, and the SUSE 9.1 binary packages of X.org 6.8.1 also contain the Composite extension but not enabled by dfeault.
The poster seems to prefer Evolution, so please note that SUSE's Kontact has also Groupwise and Exchange connectivity besides SLOX, eGroupware and Kolab.
> I installed Ubuntu and was pleasantly surprised with how simple the installation was. All my hardware was recognized and X was easily set up.
I would expect the same from the next Debian release as Ubuntu simply took their new installer.
The problem is, almost each of those 80% have a *different* set of the 20% options the most likely use.
Shredder is a non-working concept under Linux with it hundreds of file-systems.
Because Kopete went to 0.9 recently?
> Gnome doesn't have a menu editor application because it doesn't need one.
How do you change the menu for another user or all users on your system?
This was already possible before with the right setting/theme: Plastik for Firefox.
A while back? khtml improved majorly in KDE 3.2 and 3.3 and does know about type-ahead-find in KDE 3.3 too.
Mozilla/FireFox gaining Qt as platform is no win for them?
The original posting which also includes the links to the archived video and audio recordings.
The Professional edition has some commercial stuff that the Personal hasn't. I guess that the commercial stuff that is included in SUSE Personal boxed set (Flash, Acroread, Realplayer, ...) is contained. Feel free to try and report!
6.4? Hell, that's far too back to remember or me knowing it.