Ubuntu KDE

[John Levin]

On 17 Jan 2005, at 14:39, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> For an otherwise moderately balanced e-mail I have to call you on this 
> claim:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:30:26 -0500, Buffalo Soldier wrote:
>
>> 2) Both GNONME and KDE are better than Microsoft/Windows.
>
> However much I hate Microsoft and its ill-conceived Windows spawn, I
> do have to admit that Windows is still quite a bit ahead of either
> GNOME or KDE where it really counts: "it (more-or-less) just works"
> and does so without crashes (which I can't always say for GNOME/KDE).
>

Having got WinXP for Xmas (an unfortunate side effect of getting a new 
desktop), I can safely say that both Gnome and KDE are much more 
useable. Frankly, In terms of usability, WinXp is considerably worse 
than Win98, although (thankfully) more stable.

But I didn't come here to fan flames ...
>

<snip>

> Expose (OS X, show all windows) would be one nice feature to see if 
> it's not
> patented, fixed menu bars are another).

Take a look at Kompose - http://kompose.berlios.de/ (for KDE)

John


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