On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:47:01 +0000 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> For myself, I've never built a pure BLFS desktop - my preferred wm > (icewm) isn't covered, I like IceWM too. ;) http://www.icewm.org/ and it is still actively developed. Some years ago, my life got a lot better after I jettisoned all the Gnome and KDE bloat. I was amazed how much system performance went up ... and RAM requirements went down; it allowed an older machine to retain usability a CPU generation or two beyond what is typical. I do like IceWM's text configuration system, but it would be nice to have a better graphical configurator for mainstream users, particularly a control panel that is more tightly coupled to the application itself. IceWMCP (the graphical control panel app) hasn't been updated since 2004. I wish IceWM developers offered a little GTK2 config app written in C and be done with it. Heck, even a bare-bones raw text box interface (choice of system-wide /etc or per-user edits for root) would be better than explaining text editor basics to newbie users. Maybe in the future there will be a demand for a LFS level between LFS and BLFS. (e.g., no Gnome or KDE stuff, except for a few basic libraries required by many non-Gnome applications) Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
