On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:02:44PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, July 27, 2006 7:24 pm, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > -jim, using Ubuntu with the Ion3 window manager. > > i am a regular user of kde and a regular user of gnome. I sometimes use > xfce4. I regularly change my desktop until i get sick of it and change it > to something different. They all work, and these days i can even say that > they all work well.
For what it's worth, I'm using Ion because this machine is a laptop, and while I have a full-size keyboard and trackball on it at the office, it's used on its own elsewhere -- and although I'm fine using a trackpad (not so much the wiggly stud in the middle of the keyboard, which it also has) Ion allows me to do all my window controls from the kbd. (And I can use the mouse if I forget the kdb shortcut for something!) It's not well-integrated into Ubuntu - i.e. there are none of the panel notifications that they support, such as the Update Notifier. But that doesn't matter, because if I'm not going to use the default GUI tools it's my responsibility to do the same job some other way (in that example, to cron a run of "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --install --simulate") If there were an Iobuntu "distribution", I'd expect to see the equivalent of Update Notifier and the "OMG! You're running out of disk space" notifier integrated into the panel (which, being Ion, is just a small line of text :-). But there doesn't seem to be much call for all that, of course. (I only even knew the "OMG! Disk Space!" notifier existed because my first virtual machine install was in a partition that was too small, it kicked in at 95% IIRC, and let me know that installing Celestia and Stellarium was probably a bad idea ...) -jim
