Re: It is indeed, a very sad day...

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Ted Clark wrote:

> John wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:13, Ted Clark wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>What sort of things do you like better/worse with KDE compared to GNOME, 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >Several releases of G were too accident-prone.
> >
> 
> Yeah, way back they were.  The version that shipped with Red Hat 6.0 
> wasn't really even usable, at least not without the updates.  I seems to 
> remember that 1.0.39 in Red Hat 6.1 fixed a lot of stuff.  I haven't had 
> many problems since "October Gnome" in the 1.0 series, which IIRC was 
> available as a set of updates to Red Hat 6.1.
> 
> This is all ancient history.  I see a lot of stuff here and there about 
> how unstable Gnome is.  It makes me think that some people haven't tried 
> it for a couple years..

As I said, I use it daily. The release with Valhalla is about the first
that's past muster for me.

Accidents are not limited to crashes; it regularly lost my settings too, 
and that's pretty tiresome.
> 
A while ago I had a little run-in with gstalker that put its data in 
~/.gnome. All 70 Mbytes.

That was pretty annoying as Gnome insisted in reading it, even after I 
removed gstalker.


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