> > Care to list the alternative options? I can guess Lyx for document > > creation, > > GIMP for image manipulation, but that's where my list ends. What are > > the > > options to perform other common tasks: > > > > -- Email & Organizer (an only-email client is no replacement for Outlook > > or > > Evolution) > > -- Spreadsheet > > -- Presentations > > -- File and web-browsing (i.e Windows Explorer/Konquerer/Galleon) > > > > Those are the first things that pop to my head, I'm sure there are > > other > > areas in which most OSS alternatives are merely imitating MS's or any > > commercial vendor's products. > > then you failied to understand what is been talked about: > A file manager and a web browser and a help viewer are three > diferent programs. > So it should stay, and I realy would like to see khtml in > kdenetwork and not > kdebaase, if I would like a web browser I would install kdenetwork.
I agree. My intention was more tending towards a graphical file browser rather then a "files-web browser" > > In kde3.2 kmail and korganizer will be one software. Again I dont > like this, and > I like things as thry are now. If I want to look at my meetings I > will not open > my mail progaram. IMHO the ideal situation would be if people could easily integrate programs to one another, so you could use KMail as a stand-alone email program and I could integrate KMail & KOrganizer if I found it more productive. > > Anyway, unix was not designed this way, one big program that does all. But > several programs which do one small thing good. This movement is > beeing copyied > from Microsoft Windows. > Again I agree, and that is why I fell in love with Linux. To extend my previous point -- if there was some kind of a Graphics Interface equivalent to pipes so people could combine GUI-ed together as easily as doing "find -name "whatever" | xargs cat ". > As to what you say: > > There are no good alternatives so we must use them, freedom is > lost again ,since > there is one really usable program. Sad but true. > That is hardly what I said. On the contrary -- I genuinely asked for information about alternative applications with different approaches (and got some -- I just got started with Lyx and LaTeX, and never thought to use them for presentations until people suggested it here) so I, and others in my position who don't know a broad range of OSS software could use those applications. Alon. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
