On Friday 16 December 2005 14:11, प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A) wrote:
2005/12/16, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com:
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 10:42, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
Where as in KDE or M$ Windoze, you can simply click any file and then press the first letter of your file and the box simply scrolls until you find your file... Its a zillion times faster.
GNOME is much faster as you can type the filename's first characters and you are there. I used to press a letter again and again to navigate to a particular file (I dunno if it is there now and I don't know how it is in KDE as I don't use it). You doesn't know how to do it or it doesn't work the way it is in M$ doesn't mean that it cannot be done in GNOME or whatever WM.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that is stopping Open Source softwares from growing. Dude, accept the plus points of M$ Windoze coz at the end of the day 95% of the PCs are loaded with Windoze (even though it sucks big time) and not GNU / Linux ;) BTW KDE too can navigate files using the "auto complete feature" (similar to the TAB in the command line).
One thing that we can learn from M$ is that they maintained _compatibility_ and once their OS reached a critical mass they started 'innovating'. Remember? Apple always accuses them of 'stealing' the concept of menus and stuff?
KDE does things things similar to M$ while GNOME doesn't, that doen't mean KDE is better. GNOME does things differently than M$ or KDE and most of the times better than that. GNOME innovates (see the spatial file manager) and KDE copies :-)
Did I say KDE is better? If GNOME works for you, use it. Just don't act like the GNOME fan boi. This *is* the world of Open Source and least you could do is keep your mind Open. And what if KDE copies M$? If it helps increase its subscriber base then so be it. The facts show that KDE much more popular amongst people migrating from Windoze platform...
Regards Praveen A PS: Flame intented
Yeah, right like I am gonna fall for this flame bait ;)