ok, i see that you understand what I sayd before I malied it... sorry... > 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 ". it called embeding and I think it sucks, and does not look good. Every ptogram should have it's own window. Again this ismy opinion.
- diego Quoting Alon Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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]
