• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by jpmfan on Thursday 16/Nov/2000, @11:34

  Yes, MS can't come up with a decent GUI for Windoze so they have formulated a new word that's almost the same as interface for the almost-GUI of Windows. Windows is plain ugly. Horrid 16 color 32x32 icons and nasty fonts. The window furniture (buttons, radio icons, etc) are crap. I could design better ones using Paintbrush. And where's the consistency between applications? BTW, if KDE "sucks", why are you visiting its web site. If you are Bill Gates shouldn't you be visiting Microsoft's website and brown-nosing Gates instead? KDE may be a little buggy (my current installation doesn't even load the desktop (lots of segfaults) - that's what comes from using CVSUP) but it's free and you can't complain. Perhaps you could try writing a non-sucks desktop environment so we can all benefit and stop using all this rubbish that sucks like KDE. KDE rocks. Keep up the good work guys. It's the best set of programs I've ever used. (P.S. signing yourself as anonymous doesn't give your negative comments much credence.)

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• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by Anonymus on Friday 17/Nov/2000, @02:57

  Ha ha. You just got to go to control panel and select 'use full color icons'. And while you're at it, you might want to put font smoothing on too. Not gonna see KDE getting that any time now are we?

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• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by Anonymous on Friday 17/Nov/2000, @12:37

  I don't see Windows having infinite numbers of panels floating around, do you? I don't see Windows have tear-off menus (OK this is a GTK+ thing), do you? I don't see powerful themes like window decorations or pixmap backgrounds in Windows, do you? I don't see network-transparency in Windows IO system, do you? I don't see any stability in Windows, do you?

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• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by jpmfan on Friday 17/Nov/2000, @12:58

  Font smoothing? In Windoze 95/98/2000/NT? Yeh, right. Full color icons? Yeh right (again). Obviously you must have a super-duper version of Windows that doesn't actually "suck". We could all wait till Whistler comes out in 2198 and then we could all have these marvellous features. Fonts and colors are all very nice but they aren't as important as the underlying OS architecture. Windows is still based on DOS. KDE has some great stuff behind it like kparts and so on. And it's free. (BTW, it's "anonymous", not "anonymus". Bill Gates may spell it with only one "o" but the rest of us just standard English spelling).

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• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by Anonymous on Saturday 18/Nov/2000, @00:43

  I bet this guy is now scared of us. You stupid coward!

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Ho ho, I love idiot trollers that can't even spell.

Grab a dictionary, idiot.

While we're on the subject of the Windows interface, it's interesting how Bill & Co basically robbed it from OS/2 (with little bits of MacOS duct-taped here and there). And even then, they only copied the interface on the surface, missing all the genius that made the Workplace Shell so good.

The Windows interface is NOT an example of good interface design..it's a hodge-podge mess of ideas superficially culled from all over the place.

Consider the Start button...does anyone find it convenient to use? OS/2's desktop-oriented metaphore is much more effective than wading through a stupid menu-maze. I don't use the K/Foot menu in KDE/GNOME either...both are stupid relics from a Windows era that should be abandoned (in my opinion). Let's come up with something new, instead!

However, KDE has a very powerful desktop that allows me to use the desktop-oriented metaphore exclusively...I've not had near as much success with GNOME in this respect (GMC is absolutely wretched at desktop management). KFM was great for KDE 1.X, and kdesktop is even better.

• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by Anonymous on Friday 17/Nov/2000, @12:41

  "I don't use the K/Foot menu in KDE/GNOME either" Then use tear-off menus like in Gnome. Or use panel lauchers.

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• Re: KDE wins Linux Journalīs Editor Choice Award by Daan on Wednesday 15/Jan/2003, @11:05

  Haha! Yes, the workspace Shell! I have worked with it only once, and there is exactly one thing I remember very good. From the Color Settings, you could Drag a color and Drop it on a button, then only That button got the color and this was even saved. This is soooo great! You could paint every OK button you saw Green, and every Cancel-button red. But if you wanted to paint the OK button int he Delete File dialog red, it was also possible!

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