On 14-05-24 02:13 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > > Chromium isn't that bad since they switched to aura. It still lives on > top of a gtk shim, but doesn't look as awful anymore. > Kate has a powerful vim mode, though I don't know about vimrc. I've > been trying out lighttable lately (gtk/web), but its vim bindings are > awful.
I've always used it with a white marble theme anyway so looks were never a problem. It's that it's inflexible, has an unreliable crash recovery system, wastes memory when many tabs are open, has a network layer that is very prone to thrashing when many links are middle-clicked in rapid succession, and is a gNewSense-style "hack out the closed bits" variant of a browser designed by a big "users are the product" company. As for Kate, that's one thing I tried. The fundamental problem is that my vimrc is fancy enough that I'm not running Vim. I'm running ssokol-im, Kate doesn't have a full-blown VimScript+Python runtime, and Kate is heavier than gVim. > > Some of those apps are far too specialized to have replacements (like > jdownloader). Deluge you can try qbittorrent to replace it with, I > found it to be very powerful. *nod* I just thought I'd include them for completeness's sake. I run LXDE because I'm a responsiveness junkie, not because I need it. (This is an Athlon II X2 270 with 16GiB of RAM and, when I can afford a good one, I'm going to add an SSD.) Given how rarely I reboot, if I didn't need 8GiB for running IE 7+8+9+10 testing VMs in parallel and 4GiB for my Firefox extension memleaks, I'd set up some kind of "copy the OS to a RAM drive on startup" mechanism. As for qBittorrent, thanks. I'll have to give it a try when time permits. Deluge seems to have broken web seeding support lately and I haven't been using the core-GUI separation in a while anyway. (I originally switched to Deluge as a superior option to running rTorrent inside GNU screen as an `@reboot` cronjob.) > Leafpad.. you can try Juffed? I haven't had time to upgrade off Lubuntu 12.04 yet and testing in a VM will throw off the split-second delays I need to evaluate. Is there a PPA with a copy that doesn't fail to start with "libjuff.so.0.9: cannot open shared object file"? > As for git guis, the best gui is a cli :) qgit isn't too terrible though. I use the CLI for pretty much everything except committing. (So, really, I'm using `git gui` as a resident form of `git citool`) I have a bad habit of making multiple changes together, then using Git GUI's "stage this chunk", "stage this line", and "stage selected lines" functionality to disentangle them. (It's also often easier to commit the intended stuff and then hit "revert" if I made some whitespace changes I didn't intend) I'm unwilling to compromise on Git GUI's "left click-drag to select a region, right click-drag to select a context menu entry" interaction flow. As for QGit, the UI for making commits is so gummed by its attempt to also be gitk in the same window that it's probably harder to use than just committing individual hunks and lines via the CLI. The closest thing I've seen is probably the GitGUI-alike that comes with the "Git Extensions" GUI for Windows and even that doesn't have as streamlined a workflow as simply running the copy of Git GUI that's also included. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
