Re: still more ls questions

[Tim Grossner <tg@wintermute.cityscape.net>]

I dunno...KDE looks too much like Win95 to me...:-)

Its not too bad though, now that I have gotten it to work.

Tim Grossner
Network Systems Engineer
Cityscape Communications
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On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Jeff Licquia wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Charles J Menzes wrote:
> 
> > 	perfect. thats exactly what i was looking for. hey, i just
> > 	had yet *another* discussion the other night with someone
> > 	who is swearing the kde desktop is going to change linux
> > 	into a possible mainstream product. opinions? 
> 
> Interesting, to say the least.
> 
> My wife (not a geek) uses Linux a lot because of KDE.  In fact, it's
> looking like she's possibly going to go *all* Linux (no Win9x) on the
> laptop I'll be building her - again, because of KDE.
> 
> Not to start a flame war or anything, but I've been using GNOME as my
> desktop, and am pretty happy with it.  It's not nearly as "polished" as
> KDE - it's still in an early phase of development, and too many things
> break on a regular basis for it to be considered "ready for prime time".
> OTOH, when GNOME is ready, it's likely to become a major contender for the
> desktop.  KDE, IMHO, seems like a project to "get Linux to the level of
> Windows for ease of use", while GNOME is a project on the level of "blow
> Windows away for ease of use".
> 
> KDE has the advantage, however, of being ready now.  Linux may well become
> a major desktop contender with it.  And if, as Linux/KDE and Windows
> battle it out, GNOME arrives, meets all its promise and blows them both
> away, this can only be good for Linux.  Or, if GNOME doesn't meet all its
> promise, and we have a three-way race - Windows, KDE, and GNOME - then,
> again, Linux benefits, since the KDE and GNOME people are working together
> much better than (I suspect) either would work with Microsoft.
> 
> 
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