From IRC and a NEW USER: "Ubuntu is so horrible to try and use..."

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 06:26 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: 
> On 6/14/2011 3:33 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > Huh, since I'm a chicken and still running 10.4, I'm wondering what the
> > KDE folks have improved since? The one thing that Gnome lacks, without
> > running Compiz, is the ability to just move my mouse pointer to the
> > screen edge and pop magically into the adjoining workspace, without some
> > key combination or incantation. Gnome makes me crazy without it, so I
> > don't use it. If Unity lacks that feature, I'll be just staying with
> > KDE. :) Ric
> 
> I hope they improved the ugly glass look they have going on.  The only
> thing that always ruined KDE for me was the ugly interface, it just
> seemed like it was all candy, and I'm not into candy, I preferred the
> mat finish of GNOME tbh, I didn't even like the old candy glass GNOME
> look that way back 6.10 (or was it 6.04?) introduced, I used Clearlooks
> back then I just really dislike the glass look.

There's all sorts of ways to edit the appearance of the desktop. A bunch
of themes, etc. You do get to chose. Plus, you can use pictures for your
background... it's all pretty much customizable. :) Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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