RE: GNOME/RPM Lib call to libglib-1.1.so.13

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Here here :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Rockwood [SMTP:benr@slip.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:21 PM
> To:	Michael Scottaline
> Subject:	RE: GNOME/RPM Lib call to libglib-1.1.so.13
> 
> I hate a great many things about KDE.  But it's a preferance.
> Choice is good, and I support KDE, I just don't use it.
> If you know what I mean?  I'll complain about some stuff in
> Linux around linux users, but never around Wintel or Mac
> users.  <shrug>
> Disclaimer having been said.  The interface is boring and
> old.  It's a CDE look alike with a backed which is ruled
> by a pansy-ass wanna-be, but not GPL license. (the QTPL1.0)
> GNOME is VERY fresh, and well thought out.  It's a NEW
> way of doing things, and it's 100% GPL.  Furthermore, the
> development is very openbased, and all incompasing, unlike
> the KDE "we want any easy desktop..." dream, which is fine
> for them, but what about me?  I want a hot rod.  Therefore
> I choose the GNOME philosophy "It's you're desktop,
> how would you like it to look?".  
> Also, this is the same reason I use (and have always, even
> when it sucked) Enlightenment.  It's fresh, clean, and revolutionary!
> Look at everything else, they are all nock offs. WindowMaker =
> Afterstep = NextStep/OpenStep. FVWM = OpenWin. KDE = CDE + Win95isms.
> So on, and so forth...  Enlightenment is REAL thinking.  It's a NEW
> FRESH idea come to our desktops.  This is the kind of thinking
> we need in the Linux community.  Where will we be in 2 years
> if someone says "Hey, lets copy MacOS and just make it better."
> No... You have to ReThink Everything (tm)!  That's why
> people like Stallman, Raster, Cox, Torvalds, and the GNOME team
> are my heros....  They say "What do I want!", not "What will people
> like?".  This is the linux way.
> 
>   benr@slip.net
>   benr@cuddletech.com
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> > >===== Original Message From Ben Rockwood <benr@slip.net> =====
> > >>Thanx for any help you can give me.... I'm now realizing how
> >       powerful GNOME is, now that none of my apps work. Please,
> >       if you don't help me soon I'll have to start calling KDE apps
> >       from E0.15.2! DON"T MAKE ME USE KDE!!! ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!!!
> > 
> >       benr@slip.net<<
> > 
> > Just curious...., what don't you like about KDE???
> > Mike Scott
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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