RE: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Tim Van Dyne
>> Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel >> greatly superior to the KDE analogue? >> >IMHO, it is never a good idea to compare what one has in GNOME or KDE to >what is provided in Windows. It doesn't bring about the best response >in many people. Just saying what you

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 06/11/2010 10:58 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 06/11/2010 08:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel >> greatly superior to the KDE analogue? >> >> > IMHO, it is never a good idea to compare what one has in GNOME or KDE to > what

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/11/2010 08:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel > greatly superior to the KDE analogue? > IMHO, it is never a good idea to compare what one has in GNOME or KDE to what is provided in Windows. It doesn't bring about the best respon

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri June 11 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Gilboa Davara wrote: > >> But there are several features where Windows wins, as I have > >> suggested. I hope the Fedora/KDE developers look carefully at > >> Windows, > >> to see what they can steal. > > > > You do understand the fedora-users is -not-

RE: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 08:41 -0400, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > So should these be entered as bugs? > > -b I was the OP, I would have filed upstream bug reports (or actually, RFE: request for enhancement) against "control-settings", at bugs.kde.org which would have been -far- more effective (and far

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Gilboa Davara wrote: >> But there are several features where Windows wins, as I have suggested. >> I hope the Fedora/KDE developers look carefully at Windows, >> to see what they can steal. > > You do understand the fedora-users is -not- a blog, right? Actually, I made a number of concrete sugge

RE: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Brian C. Huffman
So should these be entered as bugs? -b - Original Message - From: "Gilboa Davara" Sent: Fri, 6/11/2010 8:32am To: "Users Fedora" Subject: Re: In praise of Windows On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:59 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Am I alone in finding the old (clas

Re: In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 13:59 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel > greatly superior to the KDE analogue? > > I find Windows' My Computer much better > than any Fedora counterpart, too. > > The network interface through the "Connect to" ic

In praise of Windows

2010-06-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Am I alone in finding the old (classic) Windows XP control panel greatly superior to the KDE analogue? I find Windows' My Computer much better than any Fedora counterpart, too. The network interface through the "Connect to" icon is also more intelligible than the NM interface, in my view. On the