[sclug] RUG 6 May 03 notes

[David Herring]

Tim,

This would be a bery interesting talk - I would like to attend.

Do you beleive the Kmail is better that the Mozilla email client ?

Similarly do you find Konqueor better that Mozilla for browsing ?

Let us know when the talk is talking place,

Regards Dave



Tim Sutton wrote:

>Hi Mike
>
>That was a really interesting presentation you gave at the RUG meeting! I was 
>going to throw in the offer of doing a follow up on 'The Linux Desktop 
>Experience' which will probably turn out to be the Linux KDE Experience 
>because of my strong bias towards KDE :-) The idea being to give those in RUG 
>unfamiliar with what you can do on linux a better flavour of how it can 
>productively used for day to day work. 
>
>We could cover:
>
>Basic DE:
>---------------
>Background to the project
>Kicker
>The kde file dialog (which is brilliant!)
>Theming your desktop
>
>Internet:
>---------------
>Konq (its the best browser :-)
>Kmail as a mail client
>Kopete (instant messaging)
>
>Multimedia:
>----------------
>The GIMP!
>Pixie
>XMMS
>
>Productivity:
>----------------
>OpenOffice
>
>Development:
>----------------
>Quanta
>Kdevelop
>
>Q & A:
>----------------
>
>Any other SCLUG members who want to pitch in to cover some of the above topics 
>are more than welcome. :-) Or maybe offer the same talk from the GNOME 
>perspective (where things dont overlap)?
>
>I can also bring along a couple of sets of Mandrake CD's so anyone interested 
>can take it home and try it out. I probably would only have time to write one 
>or two sets, so if any other SCLUG folks could offer to burn up a couple of 
>sets that would be useful. Maybe knoppix might also be usefule here?
>
>Interested? Follow the black & yellow penguin neo .....
>
>Tim
>
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