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From: Paul J Gans on 25 Nov 2009 22:44 houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: >Paul J Gans wrote: >> Well now, that is good advice. >> >> Do I have to tell the developers? >As a matter of fact, yes. They would love to get ANY feedback, so also >positive feedback or just a tank you or telling them you use it. Good. I'll be glad to do that. Do you have an e-mail address or a URL. I generally find the openSUSE web site to be unnavigatable. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Will Honea on 25 Nov 2009 22:44 houghi wrote: > As explained in the Release Notes, xorg.conf does not exist anymore. As > that is not there anymore, why would it be needed in YaST? Maybe so that those who need the extra control of detail it affords could put xorg.conf back to do what needs doing. I see a lot of older video cards that require considerable TLC (via xorg.conf) in order to obtain optimal performance. Since xorg.conf - if present - supercedes the the "approved solution" why make it so damned obscure to use? The ones who don't need it will ignore anyway. -- Will Honea
From: Paul J Gans on 25 Nov 2009 22:47 Ulick Magee <ulickatmaildotcom(a)feckoff.invalid> wrote: >Paul J Gans wrote: >> In openSUSE, thanks to KDE, I have >> one screen open with a long window (a simple wheel-click on the >> fullsize icon at the upper right) and one open normally. >I've been using KDE for years, I never knew you could do that... It is very useful. A left click makes the window full screen (as it should). A center click extends the window to the bottom of the screen. A right click extends the window sideways to fill the screen. The center click is excellent for reading code or any ascii document. The right click is excellent for looking at log files and the like without any wrapping. I don't know where I found out about this. In general the documentation is TERRIBLE. But that's because folks would rather write code. So would I, so I can't blame them for it. None of this seems to work in KDE4.3, which is too bad. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Eef Hartman on 26 Nov 2009 10:29 houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > For all I know you are right with that. Then start doing something about > it. Untill then, KDE3 will be dropped, KDE 3 has already been dropped, both by the KDE development team (there will be no updates/bug-fixes/security-patches for 3.5.10 anymore) and by most of the newer releases of the major distributions like Slackware 13.0, openSUSE 11.2, kubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12 and probably others). Even SLED 11 doesn't supply KDE 3 anymore. OK, CentOS 5.4 still does, but of course they follow RHEL 5 and Red Hat won't be switching until RHEL 6 is released (it is not known yet when that will be). -- ******************************************************************* ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** *******************************************************************
From: felmon on 26 Nov 2009 22:01
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:05:16 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote: > I always assign these things to more or less standard screens so they > are all one click away. Try doing that in Windows. you're right about my going off-topic but just another remark about styles of work. what you described would drive our secretary or my wife (very smart folks) bonkers. both of them shut down one application when they start another! (probably with the exception of the browser.) of course, using Windows they don't know about this desktop magic but I doubt they would use it because it still would feel 'cluttered'. I seldom use it myself. old dog. not sure it would help me much in my work either. frankly and to be fair, what I need to do is research what kde4.x gains me that I don't have with kde3.x (aside from a later eol). Felmon |