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youlikeicecream · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:48 am Post subject:

smb is a protocol, like ftp:// or http://, therefore has a double forward slash after the colon, for the record

Mike Smile

nelz · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:53 am Post subject:

You're right. KDE is a little inconsistent in this. The kioslaves, like smb:/ and media:/, use a single slash, whereas other protocols use a double slash, like fish://. As I'd been working with a directory over fish://, I automatically typed two slashes Sad

youlikeicecream · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:01 am Post subject:

To confuse this subject more, gnome uses triple slashes for computer:///

lol

towy71 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:39 am Post subject:

sorry pedant alert
double oblique in konqueror smb:// tells me that it is a malformed url, single oblique smb:/ works Wink

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youlikeicecream · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

Nautilus accepts ' smb:/// ' , if i put smb:/ or smb:// it transforms it to smb:///

anyway this is all beside the point ... I like gnome and KDE, but I personally preffer Gnome for its stability.

MIke Smile

MachuMan · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

interesting how many people here are stating a preference for gnome, and yet the poll doesnt reflect this?

note: i wanted to vote for gnome but cant seem to do it, maybe thats the reason?
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towy71 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

whoever set the poll up set a time limit maybe Wink

Me now a gnome man Smile

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alloydog · LXF regular Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:32 pm Posts: 600

I don't have a favourite as such, I liked KDE when I used SuSE 9.1 & 9.2, but I have quite old PCs and they tended to struggle under the load. I now use BeatrIX, which uses Gnome, and I am quite happy with that.

KDE seemed to be more flexible/customisable, and definately oozed with eyecandy, however, Gnome is lighter to run. At the end of the day, they both do the same job, and I think it's case of horses for courses.

youlikeicecream · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject:

I am with you alloy,

Mike Smile

Flea · Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:30 am Post subject:

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lok1950 · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject: re menu editing in GNOME

Try Smeg installed in on FC4 a couple hours after install. great little app you have to be root of course

edit you don't need to be root only user menu change
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Flea · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:59 am Post subject:

A-Wing · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:55 pm Post subject:

I run BMP (Beep Music Player) under Gnome, it is basically XMMS re-written in GTK. I also ditch Totem for MPlayer and shove in the windows codecs. Speaking of which the MPlayer project is in need of donations so I think that is where my donation next month is going to.
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M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2883

Ditto, I run BMP (which is XMMS recoded for GTK+ 2 -- the original was GTK+ 1). Haven't tried to compile any XMMS plugins against it yet, though...

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