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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:09:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100223090934.3ce1c62a@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67701443-6E08-476C-AF00-5F6BB156E643@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:42:25 +0000, Stroller wrote:

> Some comments were made recently about KDE4, where it was advised  
> "don't try using just Kmail under a different window manager - use the  
> whole KDE environment, but not single apps. Use something else instead  
> of Kmail".

I took it more as "KDE programs are intended to be run on KDE, so don't
complain if they don't work as you want elsewhere". So if it works and
you are happy with it, why change?

> I like Knode's simple 3-pane layout. Knode has improved visually with  
> the KDE4 release, but the much debated KDE4 dependencies thing.
> 
> It has only just occurred to me today to ask if there's an alternative  
> that looks & acts just the same, but which isn't part of the whole  
> KDE4 environment.

I haven't done usenet in a while, but when I did I preferred Pan to
Knode. While I am a KDE fan, I do find myself using quite a few GTK apps
on my KDE desktop.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The considered application of terror is also a form of communication.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-23  5:42 [gentoo-user] Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode Stroller
2010-02-23  9:09 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-02-23 22:58   ` Stroller
2010-02-23  9:29 ` Peter Ruskin
2010-02-23  9:16   ` ubiquitous1980
2010-02-23 22:57     ` Stroller
2010-02-23 22:51   ` Stroller
2010-02-23 10:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 10:26   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 11:39     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 11:48       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 12:18         ` Mick
2010-02-23 13:09         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 15:45         ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-25 21:45         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-25 22:33           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 13:08       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 14:59         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 15:15           ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 16:25             ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 17:42               ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 19:22                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-23 20:06                   ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-23 22:29                     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-24  0:55               ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-23 15:48         ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-23 16:52           ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 18:33             ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-23 19:36               ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 22:32                 ` Grant Edwards
2010-02-23 23:02                   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-23 16:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2010-02-25  4:32 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«

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