<div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/25 Timothy Murphy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gayleard@eircom.net">gayleard@eircom.net</a>></span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Applications installed in Fedora/KDE may or may not<br>
appear in the F-menu, and if they do appear there<br>
I find it impossible to predict where they will appear,</blockquote><div><br>Or you can do what i do and use the run command interface. I am confident that aside from clicking a shortcut on the desktop (not that easy once you have apps open) I can open any app in no time and no need to predict order or anything or even touch the mouse.<br>
<br>In windows i used to use the run command for exactly the same reason<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
eg does anyone understand the difference between Administration,<br>
System and Settings?<br>
I find no such ambiguity in the Control Panel under Windows.<br>
<br>
In Windows XP, I can be pretty sure that I will find any program<br>
that is installed by going to All Programs.</blockquote><div><br>And unfortunately by the time you have a few apps in there then the all apps in one menu idea fails because finding one app in the middle of a huge expanse of them takes ages.<br>
<br>I agree some programs in Fedora dont have links in particularly sane places but surely thats just a good reason to try and define these categories better and then try and standardize them more.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nb I prefer Linux, mainly because I feel confident<br>
that it is possible to work out how some application works,<br>
given sufficient time and energy,<br>
while Windows seems to me basically a black box.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Winblow$ is exactly like a black box. The only time a black box is useful is when it crashes and lets face it Winblow$ does it a lot. That's when you install Linux and everything starts magically working.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's like the difference between going to a doctor<br>
who tells you what is wrong with you,<br>
and going to one who just hands you a box of tablets.<br></blockquote></div><br>Winblow$ is the system that tells you something is wrong and gives you the option of committing suicide or killing yourself.<br><br>Linux tells you something is wrong and then lets you fix it with your own knowledge, a wide community, switch to something else that does work and even if it can't be fixed you still get to keep all the peices<br>
<br><br>Can you tell i dont like winblow$? :)<br><br>-- <br>There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't...<br>