Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 8.0

From: Aaron Steimle (asteimle@washpat.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 19:03:39 EDT


I went to a couple of the redhat class and they definitely pushed/taught the
Gnome tools and environment.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David R. Meyer" <dmeyer07@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 8.0

> Something else of interest...I notice in my RHCE courses that GNOME is
> mentioned MUCH more than KDE. When I asked someone about that I was
> told that industry wide, companies are standardizing on GNOME. I don't
> know if that is totally accurate or not, but it would explain some of
> what we are seeing. However, while you still have the option for KDE on
> the desktop, I'd not worry about Red Hat becoming like another software
> company out there.
>
> Dave
>
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:58, Aaron Steimle wrote:
> > but not the program menu placement of all the programs.. it is gnome
> > biased...( I really don't have a preference since I am new to both
> > desktops..I am just stating what I notice from 7.x to 8.0). I guess
this is
> > RedHat's way of pushing people towards the gnome environment...( not
sure if
> > I agree with that) My real ignorance comes in here..I don't now how
> > difficult it would be to set the program menu back to or customize it to
the
> > old or standard KDE environment.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Martin C. Messer" <marty@redhat.com>
> > To: <slug@nks.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 8.0
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:49, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> > >
> > > > The only point to the post regarding the new RH 8.0 GUI is that
people
> > should
> > > > know before they buy it that it is not equivalent to RH 7.3 in
> > appearance in
> > > > anyway. If what you want is an equivalent appearance in your
update -
> > KDE or
> > > > Gnome - then you are going to have to go to another distribution.
> > >
> > > Or take 30 seconds and change your desktop back to the standard GNOME
> > > and KDE look. Bluecurve is more like a theme than a GNOME/KDE
> > > replacement.
> > >
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> > > Martin C. Messer | marty@redhat.com
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