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Redeeman
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i feel my gnome2.2 is slower than windoze :((
by some reason X dont use my GPU very well, and X crashes often :/

i think i will upgrade to gnome2.4
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yep, gnome 2.4 is pretty fast, but i feel that it is lacking new features. I can see almost nothing new compared to 2.2. Nautilus still doesnt have any usable viewmodes/file listing modes.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

upgraded last night, yeh it's faster
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kesereti wrote:
I wholeheartedly agree. Use the right app for the job, not one giant app that does everything...that's the Unix philosophy, after all =)


KDE does use the right app for the job. web-browsing is done with KHTML, which just happens to display the output in Konqueror. web-browsing is just one of the KIO-slaves in Konqueror, just like file-management is (or LAN-browsing, or SMB-browsing, or FTP....).

The traditional way of doing CD-burning (for example) in Linux/UNIX is to tie different apps together (mkisofs, cdrecord etc.). But now that Konqueror does that exact same thing with web-browsing, filemanagement etc., it's suddenly a bad thing? Please explain.

You could say that Konqueror is the epitome of the "Unix-way".
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2003 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all,
Gnome 2.4 is actually gr8..Good sped improvement and wonderful response time in many apps. Pdf reader also wonderful.

Have fun
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having just switched from Windows to Linux I thought I'd make a few observations about Gnome, bearing in mind I'm still fairly new to Gnome and using Linux as my main OS (I've been using it from the command line on servers for a while though).

I'm still using Gnome 2.2 here and I do find Nautilus a little restrictive in a few ways. One of the biggest for me is the way right-clicking on stuff works.

I want to copy a file from one place to another, so I right-click on the file and select "Copy", I have Nautlilus in tree view and try to right-click on a directory to "Paste" the file. This doesn't seem to work. To actually paste files with the context menu you have to do the right-click over a another file/directory in the main window, and if you do it over a directory the file still gets copied to the current working dir. Just doesn't seem intuitive to me, unless there's an option somewhere to change the behaviour.

The other main gripe, is that you have to manually refresh directories. If I copy a file or something into a dir then I'd like that dir to be updated without me having to click the reload button.

They're the main issues that I have, most other things seem to work fine to me, rigging apps to launch with specific MIME types is easy enough and in general I'm getting along with Gnome just fine. I have used KDE briefly, but not enough to make any real comments about it.

When I have a spare evening free I'll probably have a go at upgrading to 2.4 and see what that's like. Hopefully it won't nuke everything.

I'm not trying to flame, just pointing out the things that were obvious to me during the first week of using Gnome.
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