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to: Geo.
from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2002-11-16 13:11:20
subject: Re: German paper likes Linux

From: Jeff Shultz 

Geo. wrote:

> Not true, a number of us who are quite familiar with GUI's find the XP
> GUI to be annoying as hell.
>
> Personally I find KDE 3 GUI to be very unfamiliar, not annoying but I
> just feel lost at times, there seems to be quite a gap between naming
> conventions in Windows and Linux. In windows we have names like Photoshop
> or Picture Publisher or Paint Shop for image editing utilities, in Linux
> they call it GIMP like this is supposed to be a descriptive name (as just
> one example).
>

Graphical Image Manipulation and Publishing? Gnu Image Manipulation Program?

There are silly names everywhere - Linux does not have a monopoly.

Saw something amazing the other day - one of the customers brought in their
system - it was XP running _Classic_ menus.

> Geo.
>
> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> news:3dd677a9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> "... Anyone who is accustomed to GUIs by working with Mac or Windows,
>> will get along with KDE quite well."
>>
>>
>> http://dot.kde.org/1036843553/
>>
>> --
>>

--
Jeff Shultz
I don't speak for anyone, and only One speaks for me.

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