Don't beat on Red Hat. See, Mandrake has to do the same thing. [LWN.net]

Don't beat on Red Hat. See, Mandrake has to do the same thing.

Posted Sep 29, 2002 2:44 UTC (Sun) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Don't beat on Red Hat. See, Mandrake has to do the same thing. by dwheeler
Parent article: MandrakeSoft shines Linux desktop (ZDNet)

I installed Mandrake 9.0 today, and I can say that you don't know what you are talking about. Mandrake is not doing "the same thing". Mandrake only unified the menus in window managers used to launch applications, and this unification goes far beyond KDE and GNOME. All window managers, even TWM, have the same menus (I mean the text, not the style). Actually, Window Maker is an exception, but it must be a bug that will be fixed.

The menus in the applications, as well as the menus in window managers not related to launching external software, are not affected. "About KDE" is still there. KDE looks like KDE, and GNOME looks like GNOME.

If you are basing your conclusions on statements that you didn't have an opportunity to check, then please make it clear, like I did in my first reply. You can also visit some other site, where it's normal to do exactly the opposite.

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