Hello,

I heard some things about DroplineGnome not being uninstallable or messing up your installation if you decided you didnt like it and wanted to remove it. Can someone elaborate on this. Right now I am running Slack 9.0 using KDE. I would like to try the new Gnome 2.4 but if i decide I dont like it I would like to continue using my current KDE install without having to reconfigure everything. Is DroplineGnome a good choice for this? If not, can you suggest something else?

if you have never used gnome before, just use the gnome that comes with the slack install first

if you decide you like it, then you may want to try dropline which has a few tweaks to make it work better and look nicer in slack

i have not heard of this problem (but then again i don't use dropline, just gnome that comes with slack) but make sure you will not have problems using gnome because it really does have a very different feel than kde

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There's some more discussion for you to check out.

If you just want to try Gnome out and think you might just go back to KDE, I completely agree with TheOneandOnlySM.

I figure ill be ok to reset it back up if need be so I just went ahead and installed it. I like it and im gonna use it for a while if not for good. One thing though, No sound. I am not really sure if dropline installed anything to do with sound but i have returned up my alsamixer and still no sound. Any idea why?

Got it, nevermind. It was the actual Gnome mixer. Knew it was something easy. Thanks for the help guys.

If you have any dropline question, don't hesitate to drop it on the dropline forum. There is always someone happy to help there too!
http://www.dropline.net/forums/
Btw, don't get intimidate by this whole dropline gnome Vs standard gnome bullshit! THe answer is: whatever you feel confortable with!
L

Yes, my first mistake was to intall Dropline-Gnome. My second, and even worse, mistake was to uninstall it. It seems to have deleted files that are need by other apps.

After uninstalling DG, KDM and startx opens FVWM, and KDE won't work at all. Does anyone know how to restore the missing files without doing a complete Slackware reinstall? And if I do have to reinstall, what files to I backup to keep my current users and settings?

Thanks,
Kent

you could try just reinstalling KDE packages.

That was going to be my next step.

hmmmm....might be a good time to install KDE 3.2?

KDE 3.2 > gnome imo. Go for it. Gnome 2.6 coming out soon, but I'm a KDE person.

My 2 cents - Dropline rocks. No problems with installation, upgrading, or using it. I recommend it highly, not that that really matters. -- J.W.

I seem to have my system roughly back to where it was before I installed DG. I reinstalled some packages that were missing and went through the Slackware install setup to choose the default window manager. KDE works now but I get the DG "waiting" curser when open apps. KDM works now but when I choose KDE for the session it opens FVWM so I'll have to find what's causing that.

Despite all its apparent popularity, I don't like Gnome as well as KDE. Seems that when I try to use Gnome it causes problems on my system. I could probably get used to XFCE but then again, it's Gnome dependent.

I think Dropline is GREAT!!!

I find apps crashing with KDE... not often at all... maybe twice a week, but still they do crash on me. With Dropline I have never get apps crashing... and when I am using some crash prone alpha software when the app goes south the window just closes, with KDE you get that annoying popup with the gear/bomb pic on it. Dropline also has a smaller memory footprint...

I do however like the theme community KDE has. I wish Gnome could have the same.

For some reason KDE feels more like a MS prouduct to me then any other DE. But then again it is geard at Windows users. And Gnome feels more OS 9 ish... which IMO is a good thing.

I can comment on this, I wanted to remove Dropline Gnome, I went to the installer, selected remove and expected it to remove only the dropline stuff. It simply removed practically EVERYTHING... gimp, gkrellm, etc etc...

Took 2 hours to reinstall stuff... bummer

I disagree, having owned and supported Macs since 1984 I see very little similarity that Gnome has. Keep in mind that there is only so much you can do with the Desktop concept and any design is going to be similar to, or outright borrowed from, something else. Macintosh Desktop came from Xerox and Microsoft Windows came from...well, who knows? The original Windows was horrible and nearly useless but look where it is now.

The thing I like about Linux is the ability to use both the command line AND a GUI. The GUI is designed for ease of use but the more you use a GUI, at least for a power-user, the more you appreciate the command line.

The good part is, I downloaded the Slackware packages from KDE and installed via 'upgradepkg.' It seems to have solved all the Dropline issues and it is so impressive.

Kent