Subj : Re: Nifty desktop compari To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Tue Apr 01 2025 01:48:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > KM> LOL. Or Amarok, or Clementine, or DeaDBeeF, or any of a thousand > KM> other names that mean nothing. Admittedly "Banshee" does give a > KM> hint. > > Irish wailing spirit. OK, that does > have a tie-in, though the definition I recall is more of a Japanese > warrior. Sort of a wild version of a Samauri. You are on the wrong side of the planet. It's from bain sidhe, which is Irish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee (their Irish spelling is weird) > When I first heard 'Clementine' thinking the little orange. Then find > it's a music utility: ah! "Oooh mah darhling, ooo mah darhling, ooo mah > darhling Clementine!" (I probably sing like one of your Banshees; > definitely can't carry a tune in a bucket!) We are very clever with our naming. > > KM> But a lot of the major ones work in Windows too. KDE routinely > KM> builds a lot of projects cross-platform. > > To me makes sense from a business standpoint: increases the market share. > ..That doesn't make make much sense from the consumer level (free!) but > the paid versions for business. I don't know of any paid versions for business of any of the KDE apps. A few are sold in the Microsoft store, but a LOT of free software is on offer there for not-free prices, including some KDE apps. You can do this, so long as source code remains available. However you can buy support from Canonical (Ubuntu) or Red Hat, tho I don't think KDE is an officially supported desktop. (However, it's overtaken Gnome in user stats, so this may change.) > > The instructions have to go somewhere! > KM> In an untidy heap at the bottom of the program! > > Stick 'em at the top and they'll trickle down with gravity to the rest > of the programme! ...Oh, user manual instructions, not programme > instructions - nevermind! Nah, I think you've hit on how it actually works. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .