Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly:
> walt wrote: > > On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. > > > > I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in > > complete bafflement. > > > > Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of > > kde I decided I'd give it another go over our long holiday weekend. > > > > I dreaded the thought of compiling the entire kde desktop on gentoo > > (again!) so instead I came up with the brilliant idea of installing > > kubuntu on a VirtualBox linux guest machine on my gentoo host. > > > > The installation of kubuntu was brain-dead-easy (that's the whole > > point of *ubuntu, after all) but when I logged in and started to > > use the kubuntu kde desktop to do actual work (shudder) I quickly > > found myself in a hopeless muddle (yet again!). > > > > My theory is that anyone over forty just doesn't understand what > > young-punk developers are about, these days. > > > > When I was a young punk myself, long ago, the mantra was "Don't > > trust anyone over forty!" (But I don't suppose you're old enough > > to remember those days.) > > > > I think today's young-punk developers must certainly feel the same > > way about old-fart (over-forty) lusers like me. (You?) > > I'm over 40. I been using KDE4 for a while now. It doesn't get on my > nerves, to much. lol Same here :-) I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre: Activities. wtf are those? By and large I get by on everything else. And e17 is starting to look more and more attractive as days go by... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
