On 2009-10-21, houghi <houghi at (no spam) houghi.org.invalid> wrote:
DenverD wrote:

And the carpet does not have to match the curtains. ;-)


They don't need to.
But I prefer it when there's carpet. I always have, dark carpets.

Good ol' days everybody had carpets.
They've been almost totally out of the picture for quite some time,
but I'm starting to see some sort of renaissance lately...

Rick wrote:
Are you able to get KDE apps and GTK/Gnomes apps to look the same or
share themes?

Never botherd to do that. Firefox looks a bit different then k3b and
gqview. However as they do differnt things, I do not realy care.

I asume that I could make the things all look alike, but openSUSE
already has done much of the work there. I do not care that they use
different icons for some things (if they do, I am not even sure).


houghi

I still think the Warp 4 desktop ... nothing else has come close.
agree...i wonder (if IBM would open source the code)

IIRC, that option has been rejected a number of times by IBM. Apparently,
there's licenced, propriatary IP in OS/2 (Workplace Desktop and all) that
would prevent it from being relicenced with a FOSS licence.

Fair enough. I have figured out pyNeighborhood to mount shares. Is there
a way to mount things like USB drives and keys dynamically? .. stick one
in, and it shows in a file manager?

I still think the Warp 4 desktop ... nothing else has come close.
agree...i wonder (if IBM would open source the code)

IIRC, that option has been rejected a number of times by IBM. Apparently,
there's licenced, propriatary IP in OS/2 (Workplace Desktop and all) that
would prevent it from being relicenced with a FOSS licence.

of course you are right...had forgotten...M$ has copyright notices
inside the executables [remember, IBM & M$ teamed together to develop
the superior OS, OS/2]

Rick wrote:
Fair enough. I have figured out pyNeighborhood to mount shares. Is
there a way to mount things like USB drives and keys dynamically? ..
stick one in, and it shows in a file manager?

I use `mc` as file manager and when I put in a USB drive, they show up
in /media

houghi

I use KDM and at the first login I select Windowmaker.

The organizations I work
with want to settle on working environment that can be upgraded w/o having
to train the staffs on an entire new way of doing things every couple of
years. If I could make KDE4 look and feel like KDE3 I would welcome the
improvements but there are too many changes to the "how do I ...?"
questions - not to mention what feels like an early beta.

When you installed, did you install KDE, Gnome or other environment, and
then switch the window manager, or are you using Windowmaker standalone?

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:07:26 +0200, houghi wrote:

I use KDM and at the first login I select Windowmaker.

Any reason for not using the matching wdm?

of course you are right...had forgotten...M$ has copyright notices inside
the executables [remember, IBM & M$ teamed together to develop the
superior OS, OS/2]

That way I only need to type jau8GFeas+#j0 and I am in.

Rick wrote:
When you installed, did you install KDE, Gnome or other environment,
and then switch the window manager, or are you using Windowmaker
standalone?

I install KDE and GNOME as well as Windowmaker during the installation.
The reason is that it 'only' takes up HD space and I use GNOME and KDE
programs anyway.

I use KDM and at the first login I select Windowmaker.

Thanks. I didn't something similar when I was using Windowmaker fairly

That way I only need to type jau8GFeas+#j0 and I am in.

you forgot to give us your dotted quad ;-)

but I'm seeing too
much bloat in both KDE and Gnome without the flexibility so m looking
for a simpler way to go without losing the features.