[KLUG Advocacy] Impressions of SuSe 10

[Bruce Smith]

>>Speaking of this thread, here's an UPDATE on my 10.0 complaints:
>>I found what was causing the problem with my workspace switcher applet.
>>It only seems to puke when you have "ssh-add" in your gnome session
>>startup.  I removed that, edited "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc", uncommented
>>the ssh-add line there, and everything works fine now.
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>That seems wierd!
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Yes, it's very weird, but I'm sure that's the cause.  I consistently 
duplicated the error
and the fix on three different SuSE 10.0 desktops.

>>Speaking of Gnome & KDE, I'm on the OpenSuSE mailing lists, and people
>>have been raising holy-hell about SuSE's recent announcement to switch
>>to Gnome as their primary desktop.  Can't please everybody I guess.  :-)
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>Gee, if they couldn't see that one coming where were their heads?
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I don't know if they saw it coming or not, but lets give them the 
benefit of the doubt and
say they noticed the purchase of Ximian by Novell.  Do you think even 
the most obvious
of signs would keep people from complaining LOUDLY?

You can't change anything without someone complaining.  And the bigger 
the change,
the more bitching ...

I did read an article saying that all the gripes may have changed 
Novell's mind about
including KDE in future releases (but Gnome is still the primary desktop 
- for now).

>GNOME, in part just thanks to Evolution, has been the clear winner for
>the corporate workstation for awhile  (it also has a HIG that is kept to
>religiously, it has excellent accessibility and internationalization,
>etc...).
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Yes, but it's a good thing that apps are interchangable between 
desktops, since KDE is
still superior in some areas (i.e. k3b).

 - BS