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Subject:    [kde-promo] Fwd: RE: A KDE Primer for GNOME Users?
From:       Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-10-21 10:16:59
Message-ID: 201110211116.59386.stuart.jarvis () gmail ! com
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Hey folks,

Things are still a bit crazy for me at the moment, but I received this nice 
email that I thought it might be nice to share (read also the original, not 
just the one at the top).

Personally, I wouldn't go so much for the converting GNOME users approach, but 
an introduction guide to our software for anyone new to us would be helpful. I 
wonder if anyone has some time to pick this up?

Cheers,
Stu


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Subject: RE: A KDE Primer for GNOME Users?
Date: Friday 14 Oct 2011, 02:37:29
From: "Richards, Toby" <toby.richards@slo.courts.ca.gov>
To: "stuart.jarvis@gmail.com" <stuart.jarvis@gmail.com>

Oh, and Step # 1 in the GNOME to KDE Primer Guide Tutorial Ultimate By The 
Numbers Perfect Magic Ninja Manual: Right click the menu, and "Switch to 
Classic Mode Style". IMO: Too many conveniences get in the way of the 
convenience of a predictable interface. Your "Application Launcher Style" is 
no better for KDE than the "Ribbon" is for Microsoft Office.


Respectfully Submitted,
R. Toby Richards
Network Administrator
Superior Court of California
In and for the County of San Luis Obispo
(805) 781-4150
________________________________________
From: Richards, Toby
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:29 PM
To: stuart.jarvis@gmail.com
Subject: A KDE Primer for GNOME Users?

I'll be honest. I've been a GNOME guy for years. It pretty much worked the way 
that I wanted it to. KDE *could* work the way I want it to, but I have to 
tweak it first. Since then, I've spent months with GNOME 3 & Ubuntu's festering 
pile of "Unity". Because of a random project that I'm working on, I needed to 
dive into KDE again. Man! After the past months, KDE is a breath of fresh air! 
I still feel that I'm learning the nuances as I go. My guess is that you could 
get a lot of converts by publishing some sort of introduction to KDE for folks 
who are used to GNOME; especially if those folks are dissatisfied with GNOME 3 
and/or Unity. Show those folks how to reclaim their lost features with KDE!

By the way, the project that re-introduced me to KDE is trying to get xrdp to 
work. xrdp (missing capital X because "xrdp" is sometimes case-sensitive) 
needs VNC as a crutch with GNOME, but it can serve up KDE with the much faster 
[Microsoft] Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). I soon hope to have a totally free 
server doing what would otherwise cost me a Microsoft Server license, a lot of 
Client Access Licenses (CAL's), a Terminal Server license, and a lot of CAL's 
for Terminal Server.

I should mention that I cannot donate money. I work for the government, so if 
my employer made a donation, then that would be an illegal "gift of public 
funds." I cannot donate personally because the state of California is so broke 
that I had to recently take a 10% pay cut in the form of mandatory days off 
without pay.

Anyway, I hope my suggestions are helpful to your mission of promoting KDE.

Respectfully Submitted,
R. Toby Richards
Network Administrator
Superior Court of California
In and for the County of San Luis Obispo
(805) 781-4150

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