[ale] Slackware to drop Gnome?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Oct 11 19:46:54 EDT 2004


Jim Philips wrote:

> Well, people come to Slackware for different reasons. I don't want
> the distro to get in the way of my choices. Fedora and RedHat are
> built out with Gnome in mind. So much so, that there is a whole
> project on Sourceforge to provide "pure" KDE in rpm format for people
> who don't want the mangled version from RedHat. You can take Slack
> wherever you want to go with it and it won't get in your way. Even if
> Patrick leaves Gnome out of the next release, Slack users will still
> have Dropline Gnome. But I will never like the idea of somebody
> shutting down customization options for me and that is what Gnome 
> does. When people say they don't like the "look" of KDE, I'm puzzled.
> Because you can make it look any way you want to. It's Gnome that
> makes that tricky.

Well, it may be that I've been using gnome so long and don't spend the 
time to learn kde.  I don't like the 'forever' splash startup it has.  I 
know gnome has the same now, but I don't use the whole gnome, just the 
parts I want.  That may be what I like about it, then again, maybe you 
can do that with kde, I don't know.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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