Re: ownership of devices

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Chris wrote:

>I don't know if E will be the main WM in future versions though because
>Rasterman (the main man behind E) has left RH, and there was quite a bit of
>bitterness at the time (kudos to him though - he didn't want to turn E into a
>windoze clone - he will have lost a fortune in share options as a result - he
>left a couple of months before the IPO!). I really like E though and I'm
>prepared to stick with it's buggyness as I find the extent which KDE has copied
>windoze to be a bit creepy.

I can live quite happily with the look of KDE. I am more concerned with there
being the apps I want to use and that the wm/desktop should be stable. I am
totally unimpressed with the stability of gnome. (My limited impression of the
gnome/E combination is that it is gnome that takes E down not vice versa.) As I
understand it QT2 has theme support so I guess KDE2 will look like whatever
you want (assuming you have the cpu cycles...)

That reminds me of a question. I think I read somewhere that E has KDE hints as
well as gnome hints so that it is possible to use E as the wm for KDE. Does
anyone know how to actually do this? What would be a suitable .Xclients?
When I experimented with this I couldn't persuade kpanel to run.

>While on the subject of RH, a pet annoyance of mine is LinuxConf -- I find it
>generally breaks stuff which was fine before

It sucks. Having arranged my /etc to be how I want it I don't dare to invoke
linuxconf in case it trashes it. My experiences of linuxconf with RH5.1 were
pretty awful. It may have improved since then but I am happier editing the text
files myself.

atb

Martin
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