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