KDE (or gnome)

[Harold Hunt]

You have to keep replies to the mailing list.

Someone on the list probably can explain this better than I.  (And how would
my time better be spent, developing features or answering simple questions
that take a lot of writing?  :)

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Splatter van Upchuck [mailto:upchuck@haggis.nl]
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:09 PM
> To: Harold L Hunt
> Subject: Re: KDE (or gnome)
>
>
> What else runs under XFree then? I can't figure that looking at a
> couple of
> terminal sessions and XClock constitutes the entire XFree86
> experience under
> cygwin surely? Or does it???
>
>
> > Neither Gnome nor KDE on Cygwin are ready for newbies yet.
> They are very
> > preliminary packages.  You have to really know what you are doing to get
> > either of them working.
>
> <laughter> Well, I had a hankering to actually wind up with a 'desktop'
> believe it or not :-) Although I have one technically speaking, there's
> absolutely nothing on it as I said above...so what am I missing Harold???
> > I recommend that you just be happy with looking at KDE and Gnome on your
> > friend's linux boxes.
>
> I could use just a *little* help here......y'know..pointers in the right
> direction? Else what is the point of cygwin to begin with...aside from the
> avowed intent of allowing programmers to port stuff over from one
> environment to another....surely that's not the only reason for cygwins'
> existence????
>
> Thanks for the response Harold....but please suggest ideas, I don't mind
> doing a ton of reading and trying to make something work.
>
> -Splat
>
>