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thanks for forwarding it on, and apologies to all for drifting off topic, just that NotZed's comments re Novell/SuSe/Ximian/KDE and Gnome got me thinking that way
I am an Evolution lurker as I am looking forward to running Evo 1.5 with GW for Linux backend at the end of next week when it is launched.
Simon
>>> Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com> 07/05/2004 15:17:04 >>> I've forwarded this on to Dave Camp the Ximian Nautilus maintainer and
Luis Villa the desktop manager. for future reference, you should request nautilus features on http://bugzilla.gnome.org Jeff On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:18, Simon Shilton wrote: > I find it interesting because I have come to XD2 BECAUSE Novell bought > Ximian....... > > I am a Novell network admin, running bunch of Win desktops, looking at > Linux as an alternative. > Generally really like SuSe 9.0 with XD2 ontop, and whilst KDE was > instant favourite I find the more I use XD2 the more I like > Gnome....go figure > > 2 things from KDE I really miss, and hence have a launcher for > Konqueror on my XD2 desktop.... > 1) select and RPM, Konqueror shows you what is inside and offers a > buton saying "Install with Yast" - would like a Red Carpet equivalent > in Gnome > 2) browse in Konqueror to folder of choice and Ctrl-T or right click > to "Open Terminal Here" - the single most useful thing I have found in > KDE which Gnome/XD2 doesn't do > > if these are new in Gnome 2.6 apologies..... > > now, if only I could get a few Windows apps to run on Wine/Xover I > would have a winner.... > > keep up the good work > > Simon > > >>> Not Zed <notzed ximian com> 05/05/2004 04:54:25 >>> > > Thats EASY, and should be pretty obvious: > 1. Novell really only just bought SUSE. It takes a while to > integrate products. Ximian too is a pretty new purchase in > that context (e.g. integration with Novell's other desktop > products). > 2. SUSE is a full-on KDE system, with some GNOME. > 3. Ximian is a full-on GNOME system, with no KDE. > 4. Printing, spelling, application launching are all very core > parts of what a "desktop" actually is. > 5. Time fixes all hurts. > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:24 -0400, Wise, Jeremey wrote: > > PS: I find it interesting that SuSE, one of the bigest distros backing > > KDE now a Novell product, who also owns Ximian (Evolution), has so many > > incompatabilites. HTML link, spelling, printing, etc.... 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