Fedora - time to blink

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 26 03:25:15 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 23:09 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday 25 November 2011 15:40:37 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 13:30 -0500, Matt Rose wrote:
> > > As well, KDE's track record on this is not exactly stellar.  KDE4 was
> > > basically unusable up until 4.3 or so.
> > 
> > I'd dispute that. I've used KDE 4 since it came out and never had major
> > problems with it (other than completely missing the point of the whole
> > Activities stuff, easily solved by ignoring it). The chest-beating about
> > the supposed disaster that was KDE 4 always seemed to me somewhat over
> > the top, but YMMV.
> 
> In addition to that, the initial KDE4.0 was nowhere near as terrible as 
> Gnome3.0 was and Gnome 3.2 still is. It had a proper shutdown button in the 
> menu, to begin with. And the windows could be minimized. And you could see all 
> active applications listed in the taskbar. And... well, you get the picture... 
> ;-)
> 
> Best, :-)
> Marko
> 
> 
> 

All  (more or less) are possible if you run Gnome3.2 in failsafe mode.
Shutdown for example is on the menu under the user name as it should
be :-`
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