Re: Can you get Google Earth on NetSurf?
- From: druck <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 01:00:42 +0100
On 1 May 2008 News poster <mistymornings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These are things frequently highlighted by RISC OS afficionados as
fundamental flaws in the Windows GUI. These 'flaws' are present in
vanilla versions of KDE as used by the EEEPC and the vanilla version of
Ubuntu (also KDE?) I tried out a while back.
In terms of KDE's own irritations, the Windows desktop and file manager
appears to implement Drag 'n' Drop quite consistently but the support
for drag and drop in KDE seems very much more inconsistent.
True.
That is what I found surprising in your implicit comment that you prefer
the EeePC desktop experience to Windows. Problems with the GUI in
Windows are unacceptable, but the same (IMHO) glaringly obvious issues
in the KDE Linux desktop are not irritating. Why is this?
Its because I don't use EEE PC like a desktop machine, if I did I'd
hate the clunky and unstable file manager, and revert to my Unix days
of doing everything from the command line in xterms. What I do use it
for is running a very small number of pretty self contained
applications such as Web, Mail and Google Earth, full screen on the
limited display, so my exposure to the Window Manager is limited.
This is why I'm still using RISC OS for my main desktop activities
of data management, graphics work and most of the email & News.
Although if I got a desktop Linux machine and put enough time in to
finding a suitable distribution and WM system, perhapse ROX, I'm sure
I could live with it. I'll always prefer RISC OS for the things it
does well, but if it can't do what I need, then I'll have to use
something else.
---druck
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