[Glastonbury] New to it - and keyboard commands

[Kelvin McNulty]

Aha! so that's the snag... I'm a KDE addict. The one thing I really liked 
about Windows 3.1 when I first used it was the way you could drive it with 
the keyboard (ALT F X to exit an application, ALT F S to save the file, etc.) 
- I find that to be faster and easier than using the mouse, but this does not 
work with Gnome... or it uses riskier shortcuts like the control keys. The 
beauty of the ALT key menu selection is if you do a wrong key you know before 
unpleasant things happen... usually. KDE allows this in most software (but 
Mozilla does not do it (on Linux, it does on Windows), you have to use ALT as 
a shift to drive Mozilla from the keyboard. And as for Gimp, this refuses 
just about everything except right click on the mouse... a reflection of the 
use that graphics types make of the mouse, I expect).

I'll think about it again if I can work out how to install KDE on Ubuntu. I 
remember Martin (and others) extolling the wonders of apt-get. Maybe it is as 
simple as apt-get kde...

Kelvin

Keep It Simple - Stupid!

On Friday 17 December 2004 20:44, Sean Miller wrote:
> peter cole wrote:
> >Yes That right, but its gnome only no kde desktop or other desktops (
> >form what linux format say)
>
> Well, that's partly true... the Ubuntu discussion list has people who
> have installed various desktops... the CD release is "Warty Warthog",
> but the latest release is "Hoary" and many have upgraded to that... I,
> personally, do not mind the Gnome desktop and am very happy with my
> Ubuntu install.
>
> Sean
>
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