A problem in GNOME

[bacon12]

Originally Posted by grey_1

Never again

Installed it and spent the next hour and a half learning to rescue my install. Lost X completely, couldn't even boot to a log in screen. killed my fglrx too..

Heh, never again.

Sorry for the hijack Doc, needed to vent and didn't want to make another thread!

Back on topic

Use a KDE centric distro, and you will see how awesome it is. I started on gnome in Fedora 5 and once I started using KDE I can't stand gnome. I should install linux again, its been a while.

Originally Posted by bacon12

Use a KDE centric distro, and you will see how awesome it is. I started on gnome in Fedora 5 and once I started using KDE I can't stand gnome. I should install linux again, its been a while.

I had a clean install of Fedora 13 (awesome distro) with KDE, but...well, I don't want to hijack Doc's thread any further. I'll just say I really think the KDE team is way, way too focused on eye-candy over intuitive use and functionality.

Don't get me wrong, I love good desktop bling, but personally I lean more towards minimalist than full blown effects anyway.

[DiscipleDOC]

Originally Posted by grey_1

Don't get me wrong, I love good desktop bling, but personally I lean more towards minimalist than full blown effects anyway.

hater

[bacon12]

Originally Posted by grey_1

I had a clean install of Fedora 13 (awesome distro) with KDE, but...well, I don't want to hijack Doc's thread any further. I'll just say I really think the KDE team is way, way too focused on eye-candy over intuitive use and functionality.

Don't get me wrong, I love good desktop bling, but personally I lean more towards minimalist than full blown effects anyway.

When I say KDE centric, I mean a distro that uses KDE as the default desktop, and gnome is secondary. Bling isn't the reason I like KDE, its the customization and functionality of the desktop that I love. I haven't used to much of KDE4 and it would take a while to get used to it probably. Gnome is gimped compared to KDE IMO.

Originally Posted by DiscipleDOC

hater

Yah caught me

Originally Posted by bacon12

When I say KDE centric, I mean a distro that uses KDE as the default desktop, and gnome is secondary. Bling isn't the reason I like KDE, its the customization and functionality of the desktop that I love. I haven't used to much of KDE4 and it would take a while to get used to it probably. Gnome is gimped compared to KDE IMO.

Yep, I understand your meaning - what distro would you recommend? I prefer deb based, but rpm is cool too.

Thing is I first ran into the same issue Doc had for this thread, no default shut down. I had to install the applet afterwards. I also couldn't move anything in the taskbar, no option for it, and every icon I placed there set itself to the far right.

I also find the new menu clumsy, not very intuitive either as well as having to access numerous panels for simply customizing the appearance. I do everything under one..no, 2 menus in Gnome.

Like you said though, that may just be the way a non default DE installs itself. Recommend me a KDE-centric distro and I'll give it a whirl.

Thanks bacon

[bacon12]

By far my favorite distro last time I had a linux install. Based off mandravia, and very easy to use out of the box.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180

Originally Posted by bacon12

By far my favorite distro last time I had a linux install. Based off mandravia, and very easy to use out of the box.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180

Heh, I was looking at that the other night. I love texstar and companies work. Last time I used it was a year or so ago - if they've managed to build on what they had then, I'll be happy to reinstall it.

Thanks!

Gotta be kidding me - fresh install of Pclinuxos on a known good hdd, nothing else even touched yet.

Open FF, open preferences and KDE crashes on me.

wow

EDIT: and synaptic is crashing....

Heck, the terminal just crashed while updating

Back to Ubuntu.

Every attempt to configure or update anything resulted in an app crash or lock up.

I don't mind tweaking and fixing here and there, but this is (In Ubuntu now) just about unusable. Too bad, really. I enjoyed pclinuxos quite a bit last time I used it.

Gnome FTW - Like it so much I'm posting it twice...

[DiscipleDOC]

Touche, my friend!

[six_storm]

Good looking desktops guys.