Re: From Console to GUI

2010-08-23 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +0200, Jangita wrote: > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose > otherwise? Experiment until you find the one you like most. If you like Gnome, stick with it. > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards > thunderbird... good

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:17:03 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 22 aug 10, 20:21:09, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:12:36 +0300 > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > If you don't mind writing only plain text mails try Claws Mail (it can > > > render html mails with the

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 22 aug 10, 20:21:09, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:12:36 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > ... > > > If you don't mind writing only plain text mails try Claws Mail (it can > > render html mails with the proper plugins). It's probably the fastest > > GUI mailer. > > Faster tha

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:12:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: ... > If you don't mind writing only plain text mails try Claws Mail (it can > render html mails with the proper plugins). It's probably the fastest > GUI mailer. Faster than Sylph? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200 Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, ... > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? I'd also check out XFCE. > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... > good or bad choice? any other email client

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 20. 08. 2010 16:01:31 je Camaleón napisal(a): >> >> I now use GNOME. I "used" KDE 3.x branch which I liked *a lot*, but >> switched to GNOME as soon as KDE4 entered into scene. >> > > +1 > I dropped KDE myself after 4 was foisted on us. Aft

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:06:18PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 08. 2010 16:01:31 je Camaleón napisal(a): I now use GNOME. I "used" KDE 3.x branch which I liked *a lot*, but switched to GNOME as soon as KDE4 entered into scene. +1 -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Please reply to the list

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 08. 2010 01:07:50 je Andreas Rönnquist napisal(a): On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200 Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, > > Questions are (without starting a "which is the best" war...) > > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... > good or bad choice

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, > Questions are (without starting a "which is the best" war...) > > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? If you want a gtk+ based DE, try xfce, I find KDE a bit "flashy" for my tastes, but y

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Sebastian Weisgerber
In general I would recommend that you test all pieces of software which could be interesting to you. Precheck screenshots and install them. Thanks to the package management, it's really easy. kompozer could be a Dreamweaver replacement, although it's not as powerful. No one mentioned kmail (or

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200 Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, > > Questions are (without starting a "which is the best" war...) > > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... > good or bad choice? any other email clients I should consider? You should take

Re: From Console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +0200, Jangita wrote: > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... > good or bad choice? any other email clients I should consider? You probably already know this, but Debian has Icedove instead of Thunderbird. It's Thunderbird with

Re: From Console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Chris Davies
Jangita wrote: > I have been poking around a little bit to now move my laptop to debian > [...] > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... These both work for me (on a laptop/desktop system)

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 20 aug 10, 14:40:32, Jangita wrote: > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? You didn't say anything about what you expect from your Desktop Environment, but I generally recommend KDE to Windows power users and Gnome to the others. Xfce and LXDE are exc

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 20 aug 10, 17:29:06, Jangita wrote: > Thanks for your advice; I've tried wine,crossover in its early days, > and yes it does run some windows applications directly on linux, but > the experience it gives is still far from running the same > application in its native OS (eg if i want to pla

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 17:55 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:45:17 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:18 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >> > >> > IIRC when the big issue came up of some distros (suse a

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:45:17 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:26 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:18 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> >> > IIRC when the big issue came up of some distros (suse and ubuntu >> > maybe?), shipping mono with default gnome, was b

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:18 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > > On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >>> Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know >

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:06:18 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know >>> of any email client written in C#. >> >> No? :-? >> >> T

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know of >> any email client written in C#. > > No? :-? > > Then I confused Evo w

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 07:01, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200, Jangita wrote: >>> >>> 2. Email:  I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... >>> good or bad choice? any other email clients I should c

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 07:10, Jangita wrote: > > Gimp looks ok; can Gimp do print quality (high dpi and crazy formats)? I don't know much about that stuff, but I think Gimp can do at least 1200 dpi. It does export to a large number of image formats, not sure which ones. One big problem with Gimp

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Jangita
On 20/08/2010 4:13 p, Michal wrote: Anything you can't find a Linux alternative for, you can always use Wine, Crossover etc etc Hi Michal, please reply to the list so that everyone can benefit, not directly to the sender; Thanks for your advice; I've tried wine,crossover in its early days, a

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Jangita
On 20/08/2010 5:12 p, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:10:07PM +0200, Jangita wrote: On 20/08/2010 3:36 p, Kelly Clowers wrote: 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? Gnome is great. So is KDE. Some like lightweight alternatives, like LXDE, or just

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:10:07PM +0200, Jangita wrote: > On 20/08/2010 3:36 p, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? >> >> Gnome is great. So is KDE. Some like lightweight alternatives, like LXDE, >> or just a Window Manager without a De

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 07:01, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200, Jangita wrote: >> >> 2. Email:  I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... >> good or bad choice? any other email clients I should consider? > > I use Thunderbird (here in Debian named "Icedove").

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Jangita
On 20/08/2010 3:36 p, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:40, Jangita wrote: Hello Good people, I have been an avid user of debian linux, but for server and backend systems (apache/mysql/kannel and the likes), and I develop all my software from my windows laptop (dreamweaver, delph

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Jangita wrote: Hello Good people, I have been an avid user of debian linux, but for server and backend systems (apache/mysql/kannel and the likes), and I develop all my software from my windows laptop (dreamweaver, delphi, sqlyog - mysql client) etc etc I have been poking around a little bi

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200, Jangita wrote: (...) > Questions are (without starting a "which is the best" war...) > > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? I now use GNOME. I "used" KDE 3.x branch which I liked *a lot*, but switched to GNOME as soon as

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:40, Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, > > I have been an avid user of debian linux, but for server and backend systems > (apache/mysql/kannel and the likes), and I develop all my software from my > windows laptop (dreamweaver, delphi, sqlyog - mysql client) etc etc > >

From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Jangita
Hello Good people, I have been an avid user of debian linux, but for server and backend systems (apache/mysql/kannel and the likes), and I develop all my software from my windows laptop (dreamweaver, delphi, sqlyog - mysql client) etc etc I have been poking around a little bit to now move my