-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Should have replied to the list as well.
- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [64studio-users] Version 3 and lightweight window managers Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:10:19 -0700 From: Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Grammostola Rosea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grammostola Rosea wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Dragan Noveski wrote: >> >>>> GNOME for me is the happy >>>> medium. I don't give a damm on what a Shuttleworth project does, but >>>> GNOME seems to be the best choice for everyone. >>>> >>> well, i am able to come around with gnome too, but it is not the best >>> choice for me and probably for some others. so it is not the best >>> choice for everyone. >>> >> >> This is a result of my broken English, I noticed this right after I sent >> my mail. >> It's the best choice for a distro, that will only provide 1 WM/DE to >> keep downloads small and fast, because GNOME is the happy medium. It's >> not like KDE and it's not like Fluxbox, but it is in the middle and for >> usage it's similar to 98se and XP. >> > Is kde4 not more similar to Windows Vista? And so better for > 'windows-converts'? No, KDE4 is a completely re-engineered GUI. They basically decided to start from scratch. A lot of todays GUIs are simply redressed UIs from decades past. The underlying structure still maintains the limitations from previous platforms for consistency's sake. The KDE folks thought that this was silly, and that by now we should be able to do better than to merely add transparency effects to a 1980s UI paradigm. This is the short short short answer. It may be best if you went to the source for the details. KDE4 may be an option as it has many advantages, but simply emulating Vista is not one of them. The KDE4 interface was designed to scale from mobile devices to huge displays. Something to think about for the future, but probably not the 3.0 release. For lightweight WMs, you can't get much thinner than ratpoison. It is like screen for X. Entirely keyboard driven (you still interact with all the apps via keyboard AND mouse, but switching apps is done via keyboard shortcuts), each X app is run full screen. Pretty cool idea, even if I do prefer KDE. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJLvYDwRXgH3rKGfMRAolVAJ9CYgCpLcfntBOmEXw8xxUDHAdg7gCdG5ep vV7w6FqaS6qUodEVaf0J6SU= =RNVZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
