Forgive the one-time topposting, please; I'm on a phone for the moment and phone Gmail, being different from webclient Gmail, is not friendly to my customary post style.
*ahem* I'm really not familiar with what Qt and GDK actually are, TBH. I believe my understanding is correct that they are some sort of building-block type systems (scripting languages, if I had to guess), such that WMs and DEs can be made from Qt or GDK "parts"... but that's as far as I go. On Jun 6, 2017 7:00 PM, "Luke Yelavich" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 08:39:49AM AEST, Christopher Havel wrote: > > Luke: your thoughts, if any, on that new Budgie desktop environment? I > > tried it, it's not very configurable (yet?) and it doesn't work with the > > USB touchpad mouse on my homemade laptop (well, OK, it does on the lock > > screen but not once you're logged in, weird), but it's sort of attractive > > and I *almost* like the simplicity of it. (It's a *little* too simple for > > me, right now.) They've even got an official Ubuntu flavor, now -- I > > realize that's not exactly a glowing recommendation in these parts; I'm > > mentioning it entirely because of what it means in terms of popularity > > amongst the general userbase. Budgie might be one to "stick a pin in" as > > one of the talking heads on my TV would say... I think it's a potential > > rising star. > > I read recently that there are plans to move to using Qt5 going > forward too, so make of that what you will. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
