[sclug] RUG 6 May 03 notes

[Patrick Kirk]

I've not used KMail in a year or so but for me the bayesian filters in 
Mozilla and Thunderbird make them invaluable.

David Herring wrote:
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> Tim,
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> This would be a bery interesting talk - I would like to attend.
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> Do you beleive the Kmail is better that the Mozilla email client ?
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> Similarly do you find Konqueor better that Mozilla for browsing ?
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> Let us know when the talk is talking place,
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> Regards Dave
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> Tim Sutton wrote:
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>> Hi Mike
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>> 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:
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>> Basic DE:
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>> Background to the project
>> Kicker
>> The kde file dialog (which is brilliant!)
>> Theming your desktop
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>> Internet:
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>> Konq (its the best browser :-)
>> Kmail as a mail client
>> Kopete (instant messaging)
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>> Multimedia:
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>> The GIMP!
>> Pixie
>> XMMS
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>> Productivity:
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>> OpenOffice
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>> Development:
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>> Quanta
>> Kdevelop
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>> Q & A:
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>> 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)?
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>> 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?
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>> Interested? Follow the black & yellow penguin neo .....
>>
>> Tim
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