Ubuntu arrives

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Ken Moffat wrote:
| Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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| Their gnome implementation is the best I've seen.
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| Does kde come on the disk, or did you apt-get it?
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No, I got it through Synaptic (the apt-get GUI)
I agree, theirs is the best Gnome impl I've seen.

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|> Biggest problems I have with Ubuntu's Gnome impl?  I find myself doing
|> "<ALT-F2> gg:some google search" all the time.
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| Is this a kde specific command? I don't know it.
gg: is like fm: which is like sf: which all use KDE's enhanced Web
Searching.
~  gg: searches Google for whatever you type after it
~  fm: searches Freshmeat for whatever you type after it
~  sf: searches SourceForge for whatever you type after it.

there are many others, but these are the defaults I use the most (plus
the onces I made myself for the particular networks I visit)

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|> Other things I miss:
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|> * K-Applets (like K-newsticker)
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| There are some applets you can add using a right click on the toolbar.
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I'll be checking them out.  I have acquired the taste for KDE's extra
toolbars and applets.  I'll have to see what Gnome does.
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|> On nice thing is that for the most part, the clipboard is accessed with
|> Copy and Paste (key-sequence or menu) and not the mouse...  While I love
|> that access, it is more difficult to explain to others.
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| I use the mouse in ubuntu like in other distros, highlight then middle
| click to paste, and also the ctrl-c,x,v keys. Is this not true mostly
| everywhere?
Pretty much, but Ubuntu doesn't seem to use the Highlight/MiddleClick
for C/P.  Only Ctrl-V/C/X

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|> I like the Ubuntu color-scheme, very earthy but nice.
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| Excellent, and if you use sound effects, theirs are interesting. bongo
| drums, etc.

I love that!  Very subtle but great!

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