Joe Barr writes: “Here is our promised in-depth look at the latest SUSE 9.1 beta. I found a little more flakiness than I would be comfortable with long-term, but I have been using this near-final version in my day-to-day work for nearly a week now and see no reason to go back to my previous installation.”
An In-Depth Look at SUSE 9.1 RC2
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Does anyone know how Suse makes the systray to be multilined? From the screenshots you can see clearly that it has 2 rows of icons …
Oh, what a great “in-depth look” that was! Most of the article only deals with him setting the monitor, completely replacing the default choices with his own choices (perfectly ok – but not in a review without at least also assessing these defaults) and not being able to use his Digicam.
If that really is the only thing the reviewer did all week long with his computer, hell, I want his job!
How about getting some real information about the rumored improvements in improving desktop cooperation?
Has OO.o been integrated in KDE, as announced by SUSE for their upcoming product? If yes, what and how well has it been integrated?
What else is new?
How about Gnome on SUSE – has it improvecd since SUSE has been acquired by Novell; how about the Ximian Desktop?
THAT would have been interesting.
… is the default as soon as you set the icon size on the kde panel to “large” or similar.
Thanx … I never used KDE Panel sizes above “Normal” so so I’d never saw that behavior…
“How about Gnome on SUSE – has it improvecd since SUSE has been acquired by Novell; how about the Ximian Desktop?”
I don’t think much has changed yet in this front. Remember Novell didn’t acquire SUSE all that long ago and by then the Ximian people were already working on improving Mono (which is why they bought Ximian, not really for the Desktop, though Red Carpet also important) and getting iFolder and other Novell technologies to work in GNOME. Improving GNOME was not really high on the priority list for 9.1 since it was so far in development.
Now that they have announced a “unified desktop experience” or whatever I am sure this is being addressed more. Also considering that they recently announced they were only working on Ximian Desktop for SUSE to get it up to snuff with the RH version. I think 9.2 (maybe 10 with all the changes?) will be where you really start seeing the fruits of the Novell/SUSE/Ximian partnership’s labors come to harvest.
This “review” was done by the same guy who did the other “review” so it isn’t all too suprising that there was really no content.
Can the same be done for the panel? 2 columns may be enough room for all the apps ever needed and no need to ever frequent the K menu.
No, but you can use the quick launch (I think that is what it is called, something along those lines anyways) applet to do it. By itself kicker just scales the icons, but quick launch will give you rows of small icons, similar to how the windows quick launch bar works.
Agreed, it’s better than the “First look” article. Still the review on madpenguin.org is the best SUSE 9.1 review I read.
A review is someone’s views on the product.he wrote on things which matter to him.it does not need to be complete or cover all and everything about it..you want to cover all the bases? then read more reviews or write your own.don’t just be down on the guy just because he did not cover what you care about.
Right Click on panel>>Add-extension-child panel…>>add icons .to it