Hi, Dong! =) It's been a while.
On 6/17/05, Dong Calmada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you mean graphical user interface? > Yes, I do mean that. > If people tend to dislike *nix GUI (yet), that's a big challenge, more > so for FOSS developers and advocates. Personally, it's been one for > me. I always tell people to try Linux GUI as it rocks. (Ubuntu's KDE > is the official desktop of our field offices.) But I myself do not use Personally, I like some of them a lot: GNOME, Fluxbox and Ratpoison. Although the last one is something I don't usually show to people who are totally new to FOSS because they really think it's too geeky... But I agree with you that the various DEs, WMs available really rock! > it as often. Wala lang, I just feel comfortable with terminals. When > my office mates see me working on four terminals in one screen of my > notebook, they feel that I'm too geeky. The only GUI applications I > use are Firefox for Gmail, OpenOffice for our office documents, and > Gimp for images that we manipulate for our web site. > > Ever wonder what I use the four terminals for? > > Terminal #1: Emacs (for my project/task management work) Yay! > Terminal #2: cplay (yes, I play mp3 files on a terminal) You could actually use EMMS on Emacs to play media files =) I do that. Well, there's also eshell on Emacs so I can use that too... > Terminal #3: Database backend management > Terminal #4: For file management, etc. > > By the way, my current desktop is run on blackbox. > Hmmm. Haven't tried that yet... > Indeed, GUI that will capture the imagination of the masses (read: > plain computer users) is a challenge for developers and users alike > (who should not tire of providing feedback to the former). > Yup! Indeed. -- Clair Ching librarian, bookworm, information gatherer, anime fan, linux newbie http://clair.free.net.ph - blog about linux, emacs planner, tech and culture http://clair.pinoyweb.net - daily journal, stories, miscellany _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
