On Saturday 21 January 2006 00:44, Alan E. Davis wrote: > On 1/21/06, Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > even go back to Afterstep or Enlightenment, but for now kde-3.5 works > > for me. > > May I ask others' experiences with e17? I just wasted my holiday > installing e17 on two of three machines. It is smaller than Kde, but > background is 20% of cpu . Buggy. Beautiful. A PITA to configure, > and menus suck. I don't think I'll be there long. I liked > enlightenment .16 except I guess I really do need icons to remind me > of what I've got on the system, and good menus.
that was exactly how I felt. All the problems to get it installed, and than it was such a bad thing to configure&use, that I deinstalled it some days later. I used earlier enlightenment incarnations as my main desktop for some time, back, when KDE 2.X was dead slow, but when KDE 3 came out, enlightenment lost its appeal. > KDE is ugly IMHO: I blew that windows-like pop stand years ago. > However, for some reason KDE developers in some, but NOT ALL cases, > seem to wind up with a more polished package. Compare Kalzium and > gperiodic. if it is ugly, install some themes you like ;) -- [email protected] mailing list
