On Sunday 25 January 2009 17:07:54 Timothy Murphy wrote: > In fact, most of the time I'm using applications - kmail, knode, Firefox - > and I just want to get to them as simply and quickly as possible. > I realize this is sacrilege, but I actually think > Windows XP is much better organized from this point of view. > except for the multiple desktop idea, which I find great. You're entitled to think whatever you want. I don't consider your comment sacrilegious, but I personally find it nonsensical. I boot up, login, I get a desktop. I have single-click access to Firefox, Kmail, and Knode because I've created icons for those in my panel/taskbar... I run XP all over the place. To accomplish the above in XP, I do exactly the same, except I get Windows Express, or Outlook for mail apps - If I want to read newsgroups, I have to open Outlook Express, which I don't otherwise use; I think Outlook is an awful mail client compared to Kmail, and Outlook Express is an insignificant toy - neither can even do proper mail threading. Firefox is the same in Windows and Linux, essentially --- what are you doing in XP that makes you conclude it's easier? You name three apps - in either OS, I login and can get single click access to the apps you named, or their equivalents - what's easier, or "better organized" as you put it, about XP? Curious minds would like to know... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD
