--- Mark Hull-Richter <mhull-richter at datallegro.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Jeremy Sanders > > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:23 AM > > To: centos at centos.org > > Subject: [CentOS] Re: centos beta 5 right click on > desktop [OT] > > > > Battling with some of those folks suggests that > they remove any > feature > > which has the tinyest possibility of confusing the > least knowledgable. > > Goodness knows why you can't have "advanced" > configuration dialogs to > > change some of their braindead defaults (if there > is an option, it's > > usually hidden in that gconf disaster, but usually > they hard code in > the > > crap). > > > > I gave up several years ago with gnome (also see > the discussion > between > > gnome and linus), and have been pretty happy with > kde since. I still > have > > to face that shockingly bad gtk/gnome file dialog > box when using > firefox > > though :-( > > > I used KDE briefly on my SuSE Linux at home, but it > kept the CPU so busy > that everything ran slower than <you know what>. > I'm not seeing that > problem with gnome, here at work (CentOS 4.4+) or at > home (still SuSE > until I put in the new Mobo/Mem/Video). Has that > changed, or is KDE > still a CPU/GPU hog? > > Thanks. > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > to be honest i have not seen that problem of high consumption of cpu with KDE Steven "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."