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Re: KDE2.2 Beta1, terminal emulation



On Saturday 30 June 2001 18:30, Dan Berdine wrote:
> On Saturday 30 June 2001 07:37 pm, David Bishop wrote:
> > Haven't tried noatun yet, and with most everything else, I've been
> > seeing speedups, but as for the x-terminal-emulator, try looking in
> > /etc/alternatives for x-terminal-emulator and seeing if 1) it is
> > there and 2) that it's pointing to konsole.  However, I just looked
> > and on my box it's pointing to xterm.  Hrrm.  I don't know how that
> > works.  Ivan, does the first terminal program that gets installed set
> > that link, and all the rest leave it alone?  I guessing that the link
> > is there, but it's dangling for whatever reason, and when konsole was
> > installed it just checked to see if it was there, not that it was
> > valid.  Of course, and as always, I'm probably talking out of my
> > buttocks B-)
>
> ah, thanks, it was pointing to 'powershell' whatever that is...  xterm
> works.
>
> Not sure why, but this reminds me of another thing I'v been wondering
> about since I started using KDE...  Kedit, Kwrite, and now Kate.  What
> gives?  Do we just play with all three till one strikes us as good? As
> far as I can tell the difference in these are nowhere near significant
> enough to mean they are meant for different purposes...
>
> Oh well :)  Thanks again,
>
> -Dan

Again, probably talking out of my butt, but it looks like kate is based off 
of kwrite (if you look at the online help, there are a lot of "thanks to foo 
kwrite developer" in there).  So I think the split is: kedit == textpad while 
kate == kde version of gvim.  At least on my system kedit starts a lot 
quicker that kate does, so it must be doing *something* more :-).

D.A.Bishop

P.S. I'm CC:ing the list in case anyone else has your problem.  One less 
person bugging Ivan about something is one step closer to having a happy 
maintainer *grin*



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