On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > An guess what - apart from > the panel, I have no icons.
I happen to like having a clock and battery status indicator visible at all times. I'm running Gnome on my main home machine right now (what else am I going to do with two gigs of ram?) and I have a bunch of other icons up, and I don't really use any of them. > I really don't understand the fascination with > file managers (I use 'find' and 'ls', perhaps 'which' and 'locate'). Same here. :-) Again, I'm running Gnome, so Nautilus is there, but I never use it. > 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 like being able to run slideshows of my photos, and there's a Gnome app I tend to use for that (I'm at work and drawing a blank on the name of it) and I completely ignore the dozens of other features it has. That said, KeyJNote is a neat app for that--it's designed to be run from the command line, and you can tell it to flip through a directory of images. The only reason I've stopped using it is that it doesn't support any kind of shuffle functionality. I know an awful lot of people come from a Windows of Mac OS background and get used to point-and-click everything, but you'd think LFS would filter out most of the people who really hate the CLI. :-) -- William Tracy Work: [email protected] Play: [email protected] Cell phone: (805) 704-0917 Internet phone: (707) 206-6441 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
