-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On April 20, 2004 05:43, s. keeling wrote: > You have apparently not seen all the posts from people who installed > only to find gnome when they wanted kde (or vice versa) and wanted to > find out how to get the other one. Let me tell ya, it ain't easy if > you're relying on [xkg]dm and the generally shipped defaults. All the > [xkg]dm's do things a little differently, don't bother to recognize > how the others do it, and consequently end up tripping over each other > or clobbering each other.
sounds like you've borne the brunt of extremely bad packaging. or you tried building things from source you weren't equipped to. which OS have you run into these problems? honestly, for MOST people having a display manager is far easier for them and doesn't present anything resembing a problem. > Add in KDE and Nautilus and you have a mess. > My advice: rip it out. Choose a window manager you can control. lol ... by window manager, i assume you mean "desktop", and by "desktop" i assume you want something light and featureless: for which fluxbox and its cousins are great for! as for the term "you can control" that is highly subjective. > Leave the libs on board in case you want to run one of their apps, but > avoid like the plague their desktops, icons, helpers, toolbars, > dockapps, & etc. ah ... i understand the desire for an iconless desktop (heck.. i run KDE and have desktop icons turned off... evil things that they are) and a clean environment. i was a blackbox guy myself back in the day, and still tend towards a simplistic desktop set up. i don't agree with your summary dismisal of the utility of desktop panels, etc... however. the beauty of Free Software is choice, allowing each to choose what works best for them. the danger of choice is the myopic nature of humans to feel that their choice is obviously superior in general because it is personally superior, or that the experiences that led to their choice are the common experiences =) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAheKq1rcusafx20MRAqdjAJwPxDer09wOR6kFzT3jCg1MRPVrUACdE5Dm R9ZmFBQ7HefnPpKDLBGQ1r8= =xK6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
