desktops (was Re: It is indeed, a very sad day...)

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:56:04AM -0700, Jens Knutson wrote:
> 
> Actually, I'm guessing you're right - the vast majority of Red Hat
> users won't notice much of a difference.  I don't like the ugly, large
> bottom panel, ala KDE and Windows that Red Hat made the default even
> for GNOME, but you don't hear me screaming.  I just accept that
> consistency is more important than petty quibbles, delete the panel,
> add a menu panel, and I'm happy.  No big deal.

<disclaimer>
I don't know why I think my $0.02 is really more important than
everyone else's since this topic has been beat to death, but...
</disclaimer>

I think Red Hat would be better served to focus on one desktop environment.  I
prefer the way GNOME looks.  If I wanted KDE, I would be using a different
distribution (Suse, Mandrake, etc.) that focused on KDE.  Red Hat clearly shows
favoritism to GNOME.  Maybe this is why I'm not in charge (I have no affiliation
w/ Red Hat), but I would have ditched KDE, long ago.  That's at least 151M of
iso space saved (only kde-*) and much more time not having to mess w/ packing
it.

It would be interesting to see a vote after 8.0 is released of who likes what.
Such as new icons, menu layout, big thick bar and whether they prefer GNOME or
KDE (only Red Hat users).

I think my desktop opinion is pretty worthless since I currently have one panel
aligned panel in the left corner w/ a menu button, mozilla launcher, terminal
launcher, and email launcher, gnome stock ticker and clock w/ a plain black
desktop background.  At the end of the day, I'm using the applications and I
just want the desktop to stay the hell out of my way.

sorry,

jason

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