Ken Moffat wrote:
> On 5 March 2010 13:51, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm obviously in the wrong place here - for people who don't use
> most of gnome or kde, surely xorg is just a place to run applications
> and xterms ?
Yes, that's the case for me. I don't use the file explorers. I do like
having the toolbar and the ability to launch a browser by cliking on the
icon on the tool bar. I also like having different workspaces so I can
switch from one task type to another. So, I have one workspace with
all my browser instances, another with my e-mail client, and two others
with collections of xterms. I also like having a little clock on the
toolbar, and being able to pull up the keyboard locker with a click.
[...]
> gnumeric, totem). I really don't understand the fascination with
> file managers (I use 'find' and 'ls', perhaps 'which' and 'locate').
That sounds like me, as well. I do almost all system maintenance
using the CLI. One place I don't is with CUPS, where I use the
"local web interface".
> Another example - once I've edited my photos, I don't need no
> applications to look at them: they are in directories and I can open
> the jpegs individually in a browser, or from an xterm I can use
> 'display' (ImageMagick) to show a batch of them.
I use eog for that, but the idea is the same. I use a command line
to view them. Since my version of eog is broken, I use gimp to print.
> NB - I _do_ build fluxbox, but only to use it as an initial window
> manager (icewm needs gtk+). For me, it's just about usable, but
> so much less fulfilling than icewm.
>
> Maybe I should just crawl back under a rock :)
No, what you describe sounds mostly like the way I use my box, but
I do like multiple workspaces and some sort of toolbar. If fluxbox
provides that, then I'm happy. Both GNOME and KDE are 98% bloat, IMO.
Mike
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