[ale] What were they thinking?

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

James Kinney writes:
 > I saw that as well on a box that was setup for KDE as the default
 > environment. It doesn't remove kde, but it changes the default
 > environment. I've seen several things that redcarpet said it was going to
 > need to remove, but it didn't actually remove. It seems to need work in
 > the user notices area. If it needs to modify a default it claims it needs
 > to remove it. I think this is very poor wording.

Okay, that makes me feel a little better.  I may try it, then.

Thanks Jim,

--Michael

 > On Sun, 6 May 2001 hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
 > 
 > > I concur.  I only started using KDE with 2.1, but I think it is great,
 > > and 2.1.1 is even better.  I'm using it right now on my K6-2 400 with
 > > 128M and it seems quite responsive.
 > >
 > > Speaking of gnome 1.4, can anyone explain why, when I tried to install
 > > the Ximian stuff it said that it needed to remove my kde installation
 > > first?  I consider that worse than Microsoft blowing away a LILO
 > > installation.  I expected much better behavior from a linux company.
 > >
 > > Or am I misunderstanding something?  This happened when I tried to do
 > > the net install from Ximian on my Debian (potato) box.
 > >
 > > --Michael
 > >
 > > Jim Philips writes:
 > >  > As a recent convert to KDE, I couldn't be more pleased with it. My machine
 > >  > has 128 megs of ram and a Pentium 333. It doesn't seem slow at all to me and
 > >  > I was happy to escape the nightmare that is Gnome 1.4. I had been a huge fan
 > >  > of gnome until recently. But the attempts to add on the bloatware of Nautilus
 > >  > and Red Carpet they have created compatibility problems that would make most
 > >  > people throw in the towel.
 > >  >
 > >  > On Sunday 06 May 2001 12:42 pm, Eric Z. Ayers wrote:
 > >  > > I concur. The new KDE seems to be very bloated, and it seemed like
 > >  > > things that used to work were broken.  I'm not saying that our software
 > >  > > is NOT bloated, but the crux of the matter is that we cannot run our
 > >  > > product demos on it, because the machine starts to thrash in the middle
 > >  > > of the demo...
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Irv wrote:
 > >  > > > I got Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat 7.1 in yesterday's mail, and spent most of
 > >  > > > the evening trying these out. While the installations are much improved
 > >  > > > on both of them, the new KDE is so slow and bloated that it is unusable,
 > >  > > > at least on my pc, (PII, 300mhz, 128megs ram).
 > >  > > >
 > >  > > > I can't wait 15 - 45 seconds for an xterm, or a browser window to
 > >  > > > open, or an error message to pop up. I have work to do, so back to SuSE
 > >  > > > 6.4, where everything happens more or less instantly.
 > >  > > >
 > >  > > > Are the KDE folks trying to do what Bill Gates couldn't do:  destroy
 > >  > > > Linux? Or do they think everyone is running gigahertz processors?
 > >  > > >
 > >  > > > Regards,
 > >  > > > Irv Mullins
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