[ale] Deep inside the K Desktop Environment 3.2

[walter Sams]

As everyone here indicated

switching desktops is no problem

Thanks

Walter Sams

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 10:23, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06:47 am, walter Sams wrote:
> > Question,  if one is running redhat and gnome desktop, can one just
> > remove gnome and put in kde without losing all the setup parameters on
> > the system or reinstalling the whole os?  I seem to see many folks here
> > and elsewhere liking kde better than gnome and would like to try it.
> 
> Typically you would install both, and just switch between them.  If you log in 
> with gdm or kdm (graphical login) there is probably a menu option to choose 
> which to boot.  If you login in text mode, then run startx, the redhat way 
> (and Mandrake, I think) is to run switchdesk.  Try typing "switchdesk" and 
> see what happens.
> 
> Michael
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:32, Jim Philips wrote:
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> > > On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:41 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > > I've been having a gas playing with kde 3.2 the last couple of weeks. 
> > > > I heartily recommend an upgrade to anyone using one of the older
> > > > versions. If you are a redhat user, the sourceforge redhat/kde project
> > > > files work well for me <http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/>.  They are
> > > > in the testing tiectories, but have been quite stable for me.  And they
> > > > supply rpms for everything since 7.3, which is pretty cool.
> > >
> > > This new release offers the best desktop environment I've used on any
> > > platform. The biggest problem with KDE at the moment is trying to unpack
> > > everything it can do. I can do 90% of what I do on the computer either in
> > > Kontact or Konqueror. Konqueror has been vastly improved by the Safari
> > > development effort. If it weren't for some Javascript weirdness in it, I
> > > would even trash Mozilla. The interactive spell-checking is something no
> > > other desktop offers. It's great to have spell-checking when you're
> > > filling in forms on Web sites--especially if you're applying for a job!
> > > Plus, I got a Google search bar in Konqueror now that I got from a CVS
> > > version. And KDE is faster than it used to be too. The Linux experience
> > > has never been better for me. And if you don't have Amarok, get it. It's
> > > one of the best mp3 players around. It made me dump Xmms.
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