Random screams of fear
Lack of posts. Here’s why:
My main problem with Zope is the documentation which is either a) for a version in advance of the one I’m using; b) has a prerequisite level I can only aspire to; or c) Doesn’t answer the question I have (like ‘What parameters do I feed it?’) whilst being the comprehensive, only documentation on the subject.
I’ve switched to KDE at work, because whilst I don’t like the interface, bloatedness or flakyness of it (esspecially JuK and Artsd, which I have to manually kill several times a day), the KIO system rocks (Basically, it allows me to open webdav documents with the filename ‘webdav:user@server/path/to/doc’, other documents over an ssh connection (fish:user@server/path/to/doc) or anything. There is absolutly no fucking way this should be part of the desktop environment, it should be split off from KDE so that everything, everybody, from curses to gnome to enlightenment should be able to (and should) use it.
Most of all, because the only text editor I can use with it is Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor, and I keep getting syntax errors because ”:wn” isn’t valid python. No, kvim doesn’t work. The Ubuntu (actually Debian in this case) package for AMD64 doesn’t actually include the kvim binary and I can’t get the thing to compile manually.
And now I have 10 minutes to get up and dressed before I have to go try to catch the bus. TTFN
- 2005-01-20 06:04:56
- Updated 5 weeks later
- By Aquarion
- From Casarufus, Letchworth
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- Filed under Those Who Evolve & Linux
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sil:
Um…Gnome does all that webdav and ssh stuff as well, though? See the “Connect to server” dialog, or “Open Location”. Or did you mean “switched to KDE from Windows”, rather than “switched to KDE from Gnome”?
Aquarion:
Yeah, but it refused to talk to our webdav server, wouldn’t work from gvim, trashed files and was generally significantly less usable about it than KDE is. This is built into the standard file dialog, you can type “webdav://nicholas@zopeserver” into the dialog and get a list of all the files on the server as if it were a local drive
sil:
Ah, this is more one of those “it works in theory but doesn’t actually work for you” things, then :)
Senji:
There exist things other than GNOME and Windows… :)
Pol:
Oh yes. I’m still trying to figure out how I jump between KDE on my desktop and OLWM on my notebook, but hey.
Two more different WMs I can’t think of easily.
MP:
Why can’t you use gvim then? It still integrates into KDE to some extent, and I’ve never got kvim working at all on this box…
Aquarion:
Because, as I mentioned above, gvim doesn’t support KIO, which is the only sane way I can get at the stuff I need to edit atm.