Working with Linux on a PC 1614

Note that the difference between those is 7 hours, and you appear to be in a time zone that is 7 hours from GMT. That is probably not a coincidence.

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If they have them, try the galaxies screen saver, and the IFS screen saver.

Speaking of screen savers, I remember when I first got OS X back on a G3 at work, there was a cool screen saver that was like the stars screen saver from Windows, but instead of stars coming at you, it used icons, picking from among all the icons on your system, and using Apple's really cool smooth icon scaling to make them grow smoothly (and rotate) as they flew at you.

This does not seem to be included any more. Anyone know what happened to it?

Kind of like the difference between home equipment and industrial equipment. Industrial equipment is often pretty ugly, but it works. Compare, say, the controls and instruments on, say, a bulldozer to those of a car. The bulldozer will show no sign that style or aesthetics were a consideration, whereas the car will.

You'll find the KDE dialogs are closer to OS X, and in some ways better. For example, KDE save dialogs have a thing on the left side that provides quick access to various locations, like OS X does. Furthermore, you can modify that from the dialogs. In OS X, I don't see any way to do it from the dialog...you have to do it from the Finder, it seems.

Compared the KDE (and OS X), Gnome dialogs just seem so limiting to me.

When I work, I am often working with files in several directories, and often edit a file starting from one, and need to save in another. In KDE, I can just add quick access entries for all the places I'm working. Also, note up at the top, there is a bookmarks drop down on the KDE dialogs, so I can bookmark common locations (this is one of the ways the KDE dialogs are better than the OS X dialogs).

-- --Tim Smith