Re: [Sheflug] Evolution, Ximian in general...

[nospam [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk]

On  3 Apr, home [at] alexhudson.com wrote:
> 
> I wonder if I can ask for a quick show of hands.. who uses Ximian Gnome
> here?

I'll raise half a hand. I have been a GNOME user for quite some time, I
used to think it had the edge on KDE and was just generally sweeter.

The reason for half a hand is simple. I installed GNOME of my SUSE
distro then when it came out I wanted to get ver 1.2. I tried the old
updater at home over my modem, but the time it would have taken was
just too painful and expensive. So in short I nipped down the hill to
the Union with a zip disk and built it all from source. So I run GNOME
but it ain't branded at all (except Nautilus of course). I'm on 1.4rc1
at the mo. I have since regretted this decision a lot my list of broken
rpm dependencies is so  long I am thinking of switching debian. but
maybe not now :-( 

I haven't run Evolution though it looks like it might be better than my
current Mail Client Postilion (The only major thing it lacks is GnuPG
support). I'm not a fan of unstable mail apps though.   
 
Nautilus is better than GMC if overly Mac like. I sadly couldn't get
Mozilla support to compile in though.

I have a question: I have recently been doing a Lab that requires me to
plot antenna radiation patterns. Does anyone know of a program that can
actually do this. The 2 I tried were gnuplot and Grace. They all seem
to draw polar graphs fine which was what I wanted but all my values are
in decibels and consequently a lot are negative. I couldn't get either
package to deal with this so I ended up using Sigma plot which was
lovely but sadly win32 only. Also as Gnumeric has stability problems it
has turned into and excel job. Consequently I'm also thinking of writing
the report in word now instead of Lyx to save rebooting and for
compatibility with my lab partners. The worrying thing here is that this
seems to be the sensible choice. 

Is there anyone else out there that has found that Octave Gnuplot and
all the other engineering tools just aren't quite up to the job? 

Simon
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