On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Armin K. wrote: > >> Well, given that many binary distributions are switching to systemd to >> ease their life and due to many components now depending on >> systemd-logind (cough, GNOME, cough), some users seek shelter in smaller >> or source-based distro to avoid it. > > > As an aside, does anyone actually *like* gnome? I've used it in Fedora at > school a bit and I think it's interface is terrible. > > Just to bring up a terminal, you have to click on Applications and scroll > through a lot of terribly unoptimized and large icons to the bottom of the > window to just find the right icon. There are no widgets in the frame for > minimize, maximize, etc. It takes a right click and a left click to do > that. > > Perhaps it can be customized, but I haven't tried. > > I'm glad we give a choice of window managers/environments in BLFS. > > -- Bruce > > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
I don't really find a use for Gnome. I don't "hate" it, but I do dislike it's overt complexity. To me, simplicity works. KDE (using the classic menu) and Xfce work like traditional desktops with easy to access menus and file management windows. Where-as I see KDE as flashy and eyecandy but with usage benefits, I see Xfce as simple in design, yet getting able to get work done with flexibility between a heavy grade desktop like KDE and a lighter weight desktop like LXDE, and some WMs like FluxBox. Gnome 3 is just awful in design and layout. Gnome2/MATE is a different story though. Gnome2/MATE is well designed, easy to use, and isn't cluttery with it's layouts. As far as the logind issue, ConsoleKit2 is working on "supposedly" adding a logind emulation wrapper to pass logind calls to ConsoleKit, plus there's the systemd-shim project to segregate logind and cgroupsmanager. I have no experience with systemd-shim though, but Xfce has said it will not abandon ConsoleKit, hence why it forked ConsoleKit. Regards. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
