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Yoz Grahame skribis 2005-04-22 11:41 (+0100): > > The thing that Windows provides over KDE is some weird kind of > > consistency between Microsoft software, and bizarre integration between > > anything. > At least with Windows, when I start a new > app I've never seen before, I can still be fairly certain that I'll > know where to find basic things and how to interpret others. Same with KDE and Gnome applications. But if you use things like Firefox or OpenOffice.org, the consistency is gone. In any of Windows, Linux, OS X. > Oh, and that it'll pick up all my existing printer and UI settings, > for example. Again, this is all working great in KDE and Gnome. > And that, say, with a media player, I can skip back and forth > between tracks using the special back/forward buttons on my keyboard. That's because there's some driver for your keyboard. Probably because your keyboard was made by Microsoft, or by Logitech, who pay Microsoft. I was surprised a while ago to see keyboard hotkeys work in KDE on someone's box. He said it worked without configuration. > Yes, Windows still sucks in a load of areas, and I have been > considering moving to either Ubuntu or OSX for a while now (it'll > probably be Ubuntu to start with, given my current financial > situation). Currently, Kubuntu works better than Ubuntu, IMO. But that's because I find Gnome too restrictive and depressing in its lack of eye candy. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.htmlThere's stuff above here
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