From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PNEeA-00031Q-O7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:04:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1C36E09B5; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFD6E09B1 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws8 with SMTP id 8so2221392vws.40 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:02:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jV+UlWjpgNjYmkBKw59ltwWGhjlVsqsudrSPavGyD7Q=; b=DBbciIIZlA+IJjShR7meA0VqOwBaqOXKO7MwizPmp5PxGfnc5LiTnjtkPmTCtwxVMO uLYDvghzrtisWoxrcPTyChVSUjrcZCE+76ccmCxYQJmmPM0S0y9+D3EyDsc6JoG4aBCy wmKt9aYWV9wXA65Fj9Tjwqbb/a82onnsT7pWo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gVEmCchYNMjjC/al34REL6d6NnRFsXRTQdOuTwLus6Y/c+qNpxxn7jujMGFZ9WMcsg NpL25gbUiJWWmUqBqHx0avT1I+pkrfdtxx7eC7u4nGqpDnH8xID4mSO+BDkqiR7NmwsU 8+u8sYqtq+xF24wAuwv00C6cJLzTe7Yz5Abq0= Received: by 10.220.200.134 with SMTP id ew6mr250651vcb.206.1291078979054; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:02:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-133-127.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.133.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q3sm855798vcr.27.2010.11.29.17.02.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:02:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4CF44D40.3000200@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:02:56 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5 References: <201011292209.03351.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 766a7cfe-a635-45af-ba3e-0e94da958622 X-Archives-Hash: c31e052ddfcaa864181ce04c74bad2c0 walt wrote: > On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. > > I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in > complete bafflement. > > Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of > kde I decided I'd give it another go over our long holiday weekend. > > I dreaded the thought of compiling the entire kde desktop on gentoo > (again!) so instead I came up with the brilliant idea of installing > kubuntu on a VirtualBox linux guest machine on my gentoo host. > > The installation of kubuntu was brain-dead-easy (that's the whole > point of *ubuntu, after all) but when I logged in and started to > use the kubuntu kde desktop to do actual work (shudder) I quickly > found myself in a hopeless muddle (yet again!). > > My theory is that anyone over forty just doesn't understand what > young-punk developers are about, these days. > > When I was a young punk myself, long ago, the mantra was "Don't > trust anyone over forty!" (But I don't suppose you're old enough > to remember those days.) > > I think today's young-punk developers must certainly feel the same > way about old-fart (over-forty) lusers like me. (You?) > I'm over 40. I been using KDE4 for a while now. It doesn't get on my nerves, to much. lol Dale :-) :-)