[PLUG] Ubuntu release party Sat night.

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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:40 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > I have used Gnome all my Linux life, originally on Ubuntu and now on
> > Fedora. I have KDE installed, but every time I try it I find it not to
> > my taste. However, Fedora 15 came out with Gnome 3, and from what I
> > have seen on the live CD I am not going to like it at all. I am still
> > running Fedora 14 so as not to have to deal with Gnome 3, but soon I
> > will be semi-forced to upgrade, as Fedora only supports the current and
> > one release back, and Fedora 16 will be coming out soon.
> >
> > I am planning on spending some time in KDE to see if I can tweak it to
> > my liking. Hint: I hate icons and I want my desktop utterly clear, not
> > even wallpaper.
> >
>
> I'm the opposite.  I've used KDE forever, even on redhat/fedora/RHEL/CentOS
> distros, where the default was always gnome.  For a while I'd try gnome
> after each upgrade, but always find something that I couldn't configure to
> my liking and switch back to KDE.
>
> Then came KDE4, with lots of bells and whistles.  I managed, with the help
> of google, to remove the icons from my desktop.  But I couldn't get rid of
> these little translucent nutty cashew thingies, and if I accidentally
> clicked on one then odd things would happen.  And I could no longer
> configure the keyboard the way I wanted.  In KDE!
>
> So I bailed.  Back to gnome, but only until I'd installed lxde on the box.
> Now I'm a happy camper again.
>
> Ali
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I love KDE3 & KDE4, & icons don't bother me.  I've tried many different
Desktop Environments & Window Managers since 1999.  KDE is the one that
works well & makes sense to me.  Of course, there are plenty of other people
who feel the same way.  I run into them daily, online.

Cheers,
Elcaset

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