40 minutes with KDE4 under openSUSE 11.0
After dozens of reviews or mentions of openSUSE 11.0 on various blogs, I finally got persuaded to give it a try by two reviews: one by Bruce Byfield (OpenSUSE 11: A Feature-Rich Distro in Search of Direction), and the other one on TechMoe.com.
So I decided to try the (installable) KDE4 LiveCD edition of openSUSE 11.0. I know how GNOME looks like (and it only can look worse with Novell's customizations), and I had no chance of trying KDE3 other than by installing it from the full DVD — or to install it after the installation of either KDE4 or GNOME.
Still, I don't know why openSUSE is praised for a good integration of everything. What I can see is a lack of consistency. The last time I used openSUSE extensively (it was with 10.1, because I only used 10.2 for less than a month, and sporadically), the GUI tools were all Qt, now I'm told they're both Qt and GTK+, however what do we see here?
> The YaST Control Center is GTK+ and unskinned, hence looking terribly — almost as ugly as GTK1 (this is why a GTK+ application should always use a style).
> The YaST2 package manager is Qt and looking right.
- Login or register to post comments
- Printer-friendly version
- 1320 reads
- PDF version
More in Tux Machines
- Highlights
- Front Page
- Latest Headlines
- Archive
- Recent comments
- All-Time Popular Stories
- Hot Topics
- New Members
digiKam 7.7.0 is releasedAfter three months of active maintenance and another bug triage, the digiKam team is proud to present version 7.7.0 of its open source digital photo manager. See below the list of most important features coming with this release. |
Dilution and Misuse of the "Linux" Brand
|
Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future TechThe metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The company also announced it was partnering with Red Hat to ensure these technologies have Linux compatibility. |
today's howtos
|
Recent comments
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago
1 year 11 weeks ago