[lug] X/Gnome/Sawmill problem

[Glenn Murray]

That's good news (what is "sid", though?).  At CLUE I heard that
Debian KDE had made it to stable but had been pushed back into
"testing" after major tests had failed.

My whole point (and a lot of other desktop developer's, I presume) is
to have the desktop be a transparent working environment.  I want to
be thinking about my tasks, not where I'm running them.  When I was
using Win98 I wouldn't often forget it because it would occasionally
give me a blue-screen reminder.  Gnome is a little better than Win98,
but markedly inferior, in terms of stability (in my experience) than
Win2K.  Win2K has raised my expectations.

I was impressed enough by Kurt Granroth's KDE plug at CLUE to give KDE
a try, but "unstable" and "unofficial" are probably not going to give
KDE a fair chance.  In the meantime I'll just make do with Gnome.

By the way, I heard that Havoc Pennington from Gnome didn't make it to
CLUE due to an accident requiring a hand operation.  That sounds bad
for a programmer; I've also heard that RMS had severe CTS---maybe that
explains why he seems so cranky.  Any word on Havoc?

Glenn


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Nate Duehr wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:17:14AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote:
> > (I am looking forward to Debian KDE).
> 
> It's in sid/unstable right now, but you get all the weirdness and possible
> breakage with unstable if you elect to upgrade.
> 
> Also, I've seen some links on both the "apt" bot on irc.debian.org
> (openprojects.net) channel #debian, and in debian-user and debian-devel
> mailing lists in the last couple of months.  Someone has unofficial
> current KDE debs compiled for potato/stable.
>