The GNOME Journal, January Edition 19
Bates writes "The latest issue of The GNOME Journal has just been published. This regularly published online magazine features original content and commentary for and by the GNOME Community. This second issue covers some technical articles, including CD/DVD creation, connecting to remote resources, and how to get help from the GNOME community. Also, will GNOME pass the Liberal Arts major test? Developer topics are also covered, as Seth Nickell takes at look at the 'Experimental Culture' surrounding GNOME development and Christian Hammond sheds light on the concept of desktop presence."
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-mike
GNOME themes would make more sense. (Score:4, Insightful)
Hence, I suggest using a theme that comes with GNOME by default (something everyone is likely to have) or picking a popular GNOME theme that doesn't try to make it look like something it is not.
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True; furthermore, that article appears to rely on the user running an implementation of Gnome that includes hal/dbus for autoloading of media.
I don't know how many distributions do this by default, but I have found very good reasons for excluding it from my Dropline Gnome [dropline.net] setup.
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KDE vs GNOME (Score:4, Interesting)
We all know of the KDE vs GNOME debate. There can't be a KDE announcment posted on OSNEWS without GNOME-fans spamming the thread with "konqueror is sooo cluttered I can't use it" kinda messages. Well, that's why you use GNOME, don't you, so why do you want KDE to be like GNOME if you already have something that satisfies you, and we, KDE users have something that satisfies us. That's what I usually think. I don't know about GNOME announcments for I don't read them. Maybe KDE users - well, lets call them for what they are: zealots - spam GNOME announments as well, I don't know. I don't say a KDE guy shouldn't comment in GNOME threads, or vice versa - it's just beating the same horse over and over again is not quite useful. WE LIKE FEATURES, and I don't feel like I can't use Konqi because there are 4 extra buttons on its toolbar compared to firefox.
Anyway, what prompted me to comment on this is that I thought that this is only a small but vocal minority of the overall user-base of GNOME. Afterall, projects with a significantly large userbase will have its share of zealots. But the very first link I clicked in this announcement begins with this (well, the first comments after the quotes):
This is quite dissappointing. Why does the GNOME JOurnal have to begin with talking about KDE? Who writes GNOME journal? Is it "official"? Because this preoccupation with KDE, the irresistible urge to compare and judge (we the HIG people, they the Clutter people) the rival project is somewhat pathetic. Now I didn't read the rest of the articles - and I may be in the wrong here, but I find it sad that what ruins most of the discussions in KDE vs GNOME debates (because an interesting discussion _is_ possible I believe) is exactly the kind of crap we read in the opening lines of an (at least semi)official journal.[RANT=OFF]
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The journal in question does not "begin with talking about KDE". It links to an article where KDE is mentioned in the context of desktop development, which IMO is entirely legitimate.
I'm not buying into which desktop is "superior" as I'm no longer as partisan as I used to be; I'm a longstanding (since ~1997) Gnome user, but I now find myself using KDE about 40% of the time. Both have their strengths, and both have their weaknesses.
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I'm no longer that much of a partisan either (well, sometimes the 'old fire' - hehe - still shows through, as you can see from my post above) - and I fi
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Really, both desktops offer pretty much the same thing. The technology is a bit different under the hood it's relatively the same. The manner the features are presented are fairly different.
KDE appeals to people who wish to control the desktop's behavior. This is usually linked to the fact that the people who use it tend to look at their computer as something t
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Well, that's my point, you only managed to put it in one sentence instead of my clumsy and somewhat hasty (and by now I admit it) arrogant comment. What is clear from the so many flames I read that there is no way to create a desktop that a hardcore gnome user and a hardcore kde user will be comfortable with. Probably the way I set up kde would be a nightmare for a gnome user :) Furthermore, there is always a choice for a distro maker to customize the defa
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