Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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" SuSE has introduced its own window manager which looks spiffy, but it has two problems. "
Do you mean a window manager theme? IMHO, it would be silly for SuSE to dump KWin in KDE.
" For some reason I don't understand, all the YaST2 modules do not follow the Qt/KDE selected font, but they are hard coded to another font (Helvetica I think, not sure). This breaks the consistency with the rest of the KDE environment. "
My guess is that SuSE did this on purpose to create a foolproof config tool. Imagine this scenario. A user is fiddling around with his/her font settings and accidentally switches everything to Wingdings, rendering all UI text illegible. YaST2 is protected from such problems. A user could screw up his/her fonts up as much as they want (up to a point, anyway), and YaST2 would still work. A system config tool should 'just work'.
" I was not happy with the Gnome setup. It is pretty much the stock Gnome2 setup, nothing new or exciting to see. There is not nearly as much tweaking as KDE has received, there is no unified look with Qt, and if you run a Gnome2 app from within KDE, you don't get AA because the GDK_XFT variable is not set by default. Gnome feels left out from SuSE, but that is not too surprising as KDE is the main environment for SuSE. "
I don't understand why SuSE are including GNOME if they are going to leave it to rot like that. Do any SuSE users use GNOME? Red Hat is much better than this in regards to KDE, even though their preferred environment is GNOME. Mandrake may default to KDE, but they still put some effort into their GNOME (I use GNOME on Mandrake).
" And why when I delete some files from Konqueror do not automatically go to the Trash Can but instead they get immediately deleted "
I personally prefer that behaviour, but it should not be set by default. Why have a trashcan on the desktop if it isn't going to be used?
" One thing is for sure: Nvidia's 3D drivers on this machine end-up in freezing in simple things like resizing a window or moving a window on the dekstop. "
That (obviously) isn't normal. My system is rock-solid with NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 3 Ti200 card). If I didn't play the occasional 3D game, I wouldn't mind using the XFree86 nv driver instead.