You can try the Desktop GNUStep avec WindowMaker.
On 19/08/2014 07:55, behrouz khosravi wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:47 PM, wraeth wrote:
Also, I think your subject line, while a valiant effort, is the IT
equivalent of "don't eat the cookies while I'm gone" :P
Yea, I think there will no e
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:47 PM, wraeth wrote:
> Also, I think your subject line, while a valiant effort, is the IT
> equivalent of "don't eat the cookies while I'm gone" :P
Yea, I think there will no escape from that!
On Monday 18 August 2014 11:04:03 Mick wrote:
> A user asked for their Google Calendar to be synchronised with
> Korganizer/Kontact and ISTR I enabled USE="google" in
> kde-base/kdepim-runtime, which I think pulled in kde-misc/akonadi-google.
Ah, so the "Google resources" mentioned are just calen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Mick wrote:
>
> I understand that Google offers two factor authentication
> (https://www.google.com/landing/2step/#tab=how-it-works) for its services, but
> if you have not signed up for it you only need a single google account passwd
> to login. KDEWallet/Akonadi
On Monday 18 Aug 2014 11:38:58 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Mick wrote:
> > A few months ago Google were using DAV for this purpose, but they decided
> > to change their API. As a result older =< 4.4.11.1-r2 KDEPIM versions
> > broke and one had to move to the current v
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 20:17 +1000, wraeth wrote:
> meant either a (non-free though nicely functional) plugin for
> Thunderbird ([0] for those interested)
I also just realized I failed to include the link I mentioned... tonight
is not my night...
[0] https://exquilla.zendesk.com/home
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wraeth
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 18 Aug 2014 09:20:17 Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Sunday 17 August 2014 23:09:24 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > Take kparts and kioslaves. KDE treats as much as possible as some sort
>> > of plugin that all KDE apps can share. This gives the user
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 20:17 +1000, wraeth wrote:
> (which, admittedly, has it's own issues, but hasn't eaten my mail yet).
Addendum:
Possibly in a fit of irony, sending my last mail decided to stall
evolution's back-end (the mail sent but the compose window was locked at
"sending" and the connecti
On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 20:43 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote:
> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not
> the other options ?
> thanks.
I think the key argument for a DE is integration - all the k* apps built
to use k* libraries and backends, allowing them to share data an
On Monday 18 Aug 2014 09:20:17 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 17 August 2014 23:09:24 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Take kparts and kioslaves. KDE treats as much as possible as some sort
> > of plugin that all KDE apps can share. This gives the user a fantastic
> > degree of abstraction because anyth
On Sunday 17 August 2014 23:09:24 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Take kparts and kioslaves. KDE treats as much as possible as some sort
> of plugin that all KDE apps can share. This gives the user a fantastic
> degree of abstraction because anything that represents data can be a
> kpart. NFS mounts, smb s
May be DeadBeeF will suit your needs? I'm using it almost as is but it
can be well configured to look similarly to your screenshot. But you
will need to configure it yourself to look like screenshot. It has
lyrics plugin and can be used with both GTK2 and GTK3. About analog of
KRunner I don't know
On 18/08/2014 07:27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 17.08.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>> On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote:
>>> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
>>> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
>>> world are bei
Am 17.08.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote:
>> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
>> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
>> world are being recreated by KDE.
>>
>> Whats the problem to use thi
On 17/08/2014 19:21, Rich Freeman wrote:
6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd.
>> > That is just nifty.
>>> >>
>>> >> #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even
>>> >> know there was such a fature
>> >
>> > I use Konqueror (with the d
On 17/08/2014 18:19, Mick wrote:
> For me this plus the shift from KDEPIM 3 to 4 was criminal destruction of
> value. I live in hope that one day KDE will take a hard long look at itself
> and go back to KDE 3 architecture; or that nepomuk, akonadi, redland, mysql
> and what-ever-else they hav
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:09:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You can't be serious right?
>
> Go back and find the original post from the founder of KDE as to why KDE
> was started at all. It's all about incoherent, mis-matched,
> ugly-when-bundled together apps that do not work in sympathy. Th
On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote:
> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
> world are being recreated by KDE.
>
> Whats the problem to use things that already exists?
> Why don't include softwar
On 17/08/2014 20:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 17.08.2014 um 20:47 schrieb Henrique Lengler:
>> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
>> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
>> world are being recreated by KDE.
>>
>> Whats the problem to
On 17/08/14 20:54, thegeezer wrote:
> On 17/08/14 20:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>
>> apps that actually work with each other.
>>
> honestly i've never had issues cross app -- copy/paste of text or files
> from dolphin to konqueror have never been an issue.
*ahem* of course i meant a wider ra
On 17/08/14 20:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer:
>> from my own experience a DE gives you
>> 1. easy hotplug devices i.e. usb disks (or you can emerge dbus,polkit
>> and udisks and add policy rules manually)
>> 2. "session" management, i.e. you can switch u
Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer:
> Howdy,
> on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's
> slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have
> never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3)
> krunner equivalent is "start everythi
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:57:36PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> hm, tell me, what was there when Konqueror was created?
>
> Please do.
>
> Maybe also try to spend some times on 'Konqueror is just a shell around
> different kparts', if you like.
>
> And while you are at it, you do know th
Howdy,
on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's
slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have
never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3)
krunner equivalent is "start everything module" and resembles gnome-do
i prefer to use pc
Am 17.08.2014 um 20:47 schrieb Henrique Lengler:
> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
> world are being recreated by KDE.
>
> Whats the problem to use things that already exists?
> Why don't include soft
I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again.
koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux
world are being recreated by KDE.
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
140817 Wolfgang Mueller wrote:
>> Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed,
>> but had forgotten all about it : yes, it's quick & easy for simple browsing.
>> Evince has extra features, eg a side menu, but mb Mupdf is sufficient.
> If you're looking for a more feature-complete
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 15:56:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> > 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd.
>> > That is just nifty.
>>
>> #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be us
On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 15:56:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd.
> > That is just nifty.
>
> #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even
> know there was such a fature
I
On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote:
> why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using something else.
> ...
> 6. Dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd.
Have you tried Krusader ? -- it's been my heavy-load FM for a long time.
--
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On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi
> wrote:
>> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not
>> the other options ?
>
> So, this is more why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using
> something else.
>
> Thin
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi
wrote:
> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not
> the other options ?
So, this is more why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using
something else.
Things I like about KDE:
1. Handles USB drive insertions/etc
> Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed,
> but had forgotten all about it : yes, it's quick & easy for simple browsing.
> Evince has extra features, eg a side menu, but mb Mupdf is sufficient.
If you're looking for a more feature-complete solution, check out
llpp[1], which i
140816 Henrique Lengler wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I do use Evince as a quick alternative to Okular for PDFs .
> Have you ever tried mupdf or xpdf ?
Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed,
but had forgotten all about it : yes, it
On Saturday 16 August 2014 16:34:23 Poison BL. wrote:
> I have friends that vary between liking and tolerating Gnome 3, KDE,
> etc. and I can honestly say the only meaningful factor in deciding
> what they run has always boiled down to taste. Sit down with each for
> a week or three (as your main
在 2014年8月16日 星期六 21:52:04，Сергей 写道：
> I use KDE, because it has biggest amount of functions KDE Connect,
> KRunner and Amarok have no match in GTK-world. If they had, I would
> use Xfce.
Yeah, KRunner is what makes me even unable to use Windows.
Also, kdevelop is the best IDE ever created, even
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi
wrote:
> Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I
> had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and
> it is very great.
> I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too.
> Before ju
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> I do use Evince as a quick alternative to Okular for PDFs .
Have you ever tried mupdf? or xpdf? why install a GNOME app when you
don't use it?
--
Henrique Lengler
https://gitorious.org/~henriqueleng
Am 16.08.2014 um 18:13 schrieb behrouz khosravi:
> Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I
> had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and
> it is very great.
> I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too.
> Before jumping to g
140816 behrouz khosravi wrote:
> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE
> and not the other options ?
I've used Fluxbox for a long time & am completely satisfied ;
it's very customisable, fast & reliable ; I start it with 'startx' ;
the only problem is that it's not good at au
I never liked any DE. And i hate the KDE things like konsole, konqueror,
ktorrent principally when you try to install these in a non KDE system.
--
Henrique Lengler
https://gitorious.org/~henriqueleng
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Сергей wrote:
> I use KDE, because it has biggest amount of functions KDE Connect,
> KRunner and Amarok have no match in GTK-world. If they had, I would
> use Xfce.
>
well it seems that Xfce is now really a big player. I guess that it's
number of users is quite
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I've been enjoying LXDE for a long time now. I have installed it along
with XFCE (my machines are low on resources*). I can't explain why, but
I like LXDE better than XFCE. I've also tried KDE - looks great but as
I mentioned I have limited computing
> xfce4 here, very light weight, customizable, boots up instantly for me.
> I use nfsv3 and netboot many box's with it as a shared read only root
Is it as customizable as KDE ? I have installed KDE on a Debian
machine and I like it's configurability.
On Saturday 16 Aug 2014 17:13:29 behrouz khosravi wrote:
> Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I
> had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and
> it is very great.
> I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too.
> Before jump
xfce4 here, very light weight, customizable, boots up instantly for me.I use
nfsv3 and netboot many box's with it as a shared read only root
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:43:29 +0430
> Subject: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)
> From: bz.khos
Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I
had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and
it is very great.
I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too.
Before jumping to gnome I wanted to evaluate my options.
I have heard that " I
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