Re: Applets

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

stan wrote:

> I'm in the process of building replacement workstations for me and my wife.
> Cyrently we are using older Currently testing machines. I froze these machines
> (mostly) and the end of the Gnome 1.4 cycle. 
>
> I've just loaded the latest "testing" stuff, and I'm playing around with
> both Gnome and KDE. Frankly, I'm having a real hard time coming up with as
> productive, and good looking an environment as I have.
This is just a personal preference, but for workstation use, I'd a whole 
lot rather run a sid box than a testing box.

> The primary shortcoming, as far as I can see is in the lack of a rich
> variety of applets to put on the panels. For example on my machine I have,
> keyboard :LED's", Gnome foot menu. Terminal Icon (xterm), analog clock,
> weather monitor, help, toolkit, dictionary lookup, CD player, xawtv
> controls, sound mixer, Geyes, Galeon, system load monitor, Slashapp, and
> the fish.
>
>  
Perhaps you need to install "gnome-applets"? And maybe "xterm"? And 
"galeon"? And "xawtv"? "Slashapp" I don't find at all.

Some of the other stuff is generic, such as the CD player, which might 
be "xine" or "xmms" or "totem" or "grip" or etc etc etc.

> At present I'm leaning twoard KDE, as it seems more customizable than the
> current generation of Gnome, or am I mistaken?
>  
I don't know that I'd describe it as more customizable, but I personally 
find the default setup of KDE more satisfying from a user's perspective 
than the default setup of Gnome.

--
Kent