The big switch

[outlier_lynn]

I've spent the last couple of hours exploring gnome desktop again. I switched ti KDE quite awhile ago and I wanted to see what gnome had come up with when they switched to 2.0.

Good-bye KDE.

Gnome has a couple of very nice features that make it my desktop of choice now.

And I have given up on galeon. sigh. I am hoping they get their old functionality back into their new browser. Mozilla is almost as nice as galeon was. Almost. Far better than galeon is now, though.

Anyway, time to clean my body and take it to a cast meeting.

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desktops

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I've found KDE works pretty well these days. On Red Hat, the differences between Gnome and KDE are pretty small.

I like galeon, especially because it remembers all the tabs you have open when you quit the program, and it will reopen all of them when you restart, if you like.

I've also heard good things about Firebird.

Re: lj client

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

I like the feel of KDE slightly more than gnome, but I like some of the gadgets that come with gnome like a dictionary lookup that sits in the panel, mulitple panels (mine are very crowded) and a couple of other miner things. I have six workspaces set up on my machines. KDE letes me set the background on each independantly. I like that. I don't seem to have the same ability under gnome.

Galeon's sessions is a great feature. I miss that. Mozilla lets you make one bookmark of all the open tabs which accomplishes the same thing, but is clunkier. I'll watch galeon closely and probably switch back eventually.

I should look into building my own rpms from the source installs I do. I just haven't gotten around to learning rpm that well. It would probably make my life easier in lots of ways.