On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:10:57PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > >If you are running KDE, > > I'm currently using Slink 2.1r4. Is KDE in potato? I don't think I have > seen a package with KDE on my two CD's. I saw gnome, with big warning > labels saying thinks like "!!!WARNING!!! ALPHA software! This is very buggy > and horrible and you don't want it".
If you're upgrading to potato, GNOME shouldn't be too bad. You could also try the Helix-GNOME...? [http://www.helixcode.com/] > > If I've got it right, there are two 'somethings': KDE and GNOME, and they > work at the same level. And there are window managers, which work at > another level. Isn't Another Level a fvwm configuration? :) > What are KDE and GNOME, what is the right word? Do you have to have > one of them? I have no icons on my desktop, although staroffice > told me it was going to install one... KDE and GNOME are desktop environments. No, you don't have to have one. If you don't, Star Office can't install an icon. > > What I've heard, KDE is trying to look like windows, and GNOME isn't. > Right? I'm a bit confused. > IMHO, they both look quite a bit like Windows. Of course, both are configurable. GNOME is written with the gtk+ toolkit (is that redundant?) and KDE with qt from TrollTech. [snip] -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I cannot overemphasize the importance of good grammar. . What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: "Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America," or "Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II." -- Dave Barry, "An Utterly Absurd Look at Grammar"
