On 15/02/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 14/02/2008, Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Gnome panel sometimes doing various tricks. It is a good GUI, but not
>> reliable.
>>
>
> Please explain that comment, and provide details. I'm a KDE user, but
> I don't know Gnome to be unreliable. What, exactly (with examples) do
> you mean by "unreliable".
1. Gnome fails to connect with a secure Webdav folder at my univ., while
KDE works great. Hasn't worked for the last few years. Made me switch to
KDE though -- not to mention I started to like KDE!
I agree, if you need to remotely manage other machines, then Konqueror
cannot be beat. I use it to manage quite a few servers. Nautilus does
not even come close.
2. Gnomebaker does not erase DVD-RW discs. It just gets confused and
gives an error no matter which back end I use, cdrecord or wodim. K3b
however, works great. Apparently, others have reported this too and
there is some noise on Ubuntu lists about this.
I've also heard this.
Now, I admit, one could argue these are not examples of unreliability
since Gnome fails consistently :) But (1) above has been going on for
so long and that I now have serious doubts whether Gnome (Nautilus, more
specifically) developers really care about Webdav access functionality
at all.
Have you contributed to the related bug, or at least voted for it?
I was looking for chance to rant, thanks for opportunity :)
Mailing lists are great for that! You should check out usenet!
But having said, I must also say that for a novice Linux desktop user, I
would probably recommend Gnome. It is much more simpler (fewer
customizations and options) than KDE. Gnome developers have done
magnificent work. Of course, it is always going to need improvement and
fixes here and there.
I install KDE on new user's machines, but I configure it myself.
Gnome, while simpler, seems to do things in unintuitive ways in my
opinion. Many new Linux users do not like the menu at the top of the
screen, for instance. At least, that is the impression I've gotten
after switching 15-20 people's computers over from XP to
Fedora/Ubuntu.
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
