(LinuxWorld) -- Thanks to everyone who responded to the column GNOME and KDE
revisited. I got a broad range of responses. One person who hasn't done any
development yet for either GNOME or KDE immediately echoed my sentiments
about the superior maturity of the documentation for KDE and Qt. Last week, I
said I would address the issues of maturity, language, and theme handling
regarding GNOME and GTK, so this letter provides me a convenient segue into
the first of these topics. Unfortunately, I won't have room this week to get
into the issue of language, but I hope my rant about theme handling will tide
you over until then.
Before I get started, let me address the general sentiment of many of the
letters I've received about last week's column. Most of the e-mails I
recei... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- I had hoped to wrap up the topic of window managers with my
most recent column (see Window-managers 101: The desktop beyond GNOME and
KDE), but from the e-mails I've received I'm afraid readers will hang me up
by the thumbs unless I mention a few of their favorites. It just so happens
that I used to switch window managers about once weekly just for kicks, so I
confess tha... (more)
(LinuxWorld) — Believe it or not, it is not my intention to rekindle
the KDE vs. GNOME desktop wars. I suspect the only way to avoid it, however,
is to pretend that I like both equally. I don't. However, I don't want to
leave you with the impression that these are the only choices, either. There
are plenty of lightweight and middleweight window managers that you may
prefer. Neverth... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- This week's topic is a salute to the command line. It was
inspired by a reader named Kevin, who recently brought to my attention some
interesting limitations of Windows XP's new feature called "fast user
switching." In case you missed the hype, "fast user switching" is Microsoft's
name for "multi-user system." It lets more than one user log into Windows XP
at the same tim... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- I am writing this column under protest. The idealist part of
me is protesting against the realist, who is the driving force behind this
week's column. Here's the deal. I tried Codeweavers' CrossOver Office, which
is a commercial product that lets you run Microsoft Office 97, Office 2000,
and Lotus Notes natively under Linux. Codeweavers performs this miracle with
an enhan... (more)
Nicholas Petreley is a computer consultant and author in Asheville, NC.
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