[gentoo-user] Re: why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)
On 2014-08-16, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not the other options ? I've been running XFCE for a long time. Before that, I didn't have a Desktop Environment at all, just the fvwm window manager which I started using back before Linux kernel version 1.00 came out [before Linux and fvwm were around, I mostly used the twm window manager]. At some point many years ago, there was some problem with fvwm that I couldn't work-around (I don't even remember what it was). I tried Gnome and KDE, but they were just _way_ too big and slow, and they both seemed to think that the desktop was the be-all-and-end-all of computation and should always being the center of your attention and the user-up of all resources. I run a computer in order to run various apps. The desktop is just there to manage windows and facilitate running those apps. It should otherwise stay out of the way, out of sight, and out of memory. XFCE does a pretty good job of that. XFCE isn't too big. XFCE doesn't think it should always be the star of the show and the center of everybody's attention. XFCE is stable: it doesn't get completely re-designed, re-skinned, and broken every few years because people finally figured how to actually use the old version and some new batch of developers are bored and want to spray their scent all over everything Here's what my XFCE desktop looks like: http://www.panix.com/~grante/desktop.png -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Were these parsnips at CORRECTLY MARINATED in gmail.comTACO SAUCE?
[gentoo-user] Re: why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)
On 2014-08-17, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@openmailbox.org wrote: Whats the problem to use things that already exists? Why don't include software that is famous and liked by people insted of insist in their Kthings? NIH syndrome? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I hope something GOOD at came in the mail today so gmail.comI have a REASON to live!!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)
Am 18.08.2014 um 17:50 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2014-08-17, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@openmailbox.org wrote: Whats the problem to use things that already exists? Why don't include software that is famous and liked by people insted of insist in their Kthings? NIH syndrome? that almost describes gnome people but what was there before KDE started? xterm... Netscape Navigator and not much else. Ok, they could have done what gnome did. Take some gtk app, add a dependency on gconf and gnome-vfs and call it a 'gnome app'. There is a reason why Koffice is an office, while 'gnome office' is a bunch of apps that don't know each other. But back to NIH. KDE developed dcop - and dcop was awesome. You could script your entire KDE desktop with a bunch of simple dcop commands. But that was not good enough for gnome. They, and the freedesktop.org they infested were adamant: there must be a new desktop bus - it would be called dbus and waiting for gnome and the demands of gnome-devs held back KDE development
