Couldn't agree more - check windowmaker out at
http://www.windomaker.org. Clean, fast, light-weight,
stable, 24bit color with textures and shading, Gnome
and KDE hint compatible (i.e. apps written for either
are perfectly happy under windowmaker). You don't
need a "desktop" when you have popup menus and a dock
(be sure to look at the "Features" page). Only
downside for a novice user is that "it doesn't look
like Windows(tm)" which, IMHO, is a Good Thing.
Speaking of which, who decided that Windows is the
optimal user interface? I'm obviously biased, but if
I were a computer novice I would find WindowMaker or
Afterstep or Openlook friendlier than
Windows-9?/NT/2k/ME (and they accuse Linux of
fragmentation ;).
-david
--- Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Gnome is the "great unfinished project" and works
> even though you know
> it'll get better. It has lots of potential, but
> we'll see where it
> goes.
>
> KDE is good and easy to transition to, but has funky
> licensing.
>
> Why no just run a real wm without all the extra crap
> on top of it?
>
> --Mike
>
> Bob Miller wrote:
>
> > Harald Sundt wrote:
> >
> > > Prime Time for Linux "is arriving" a little more
> than "arrived".
> >
> > That's for sure.
> >
> > Hey, here's a question for the assembled wisdom.
> Which desktop
> > environment is going to dominate Linux in three
> years? KDE had an
> > early lead, but it hasn't had a stable release in
> over a year, and
> > Gnome is progressing rapidly. Gnome seems to have
> a lot more
> > commercial development (e.g., Eazel, Helix) and
> buzz going. It's not
> > clear to me which project has the bigger
> development community.
> >
> > So what's going to happen? (Microsoft Desktop for
> Linux. *-: )
> >
> > --
> > K<bob>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
>
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