On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 05:31:34PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:05:43 -0700 > Michael Dexter <[email protected]> dijo: > > >KDE, Unity, even XFCE, are massive, complex software environments that > >achieve simplicity of user experience through rigid adherence to a > >given paradigm - and once you can write a shell script, they do > >remarkably little for you. We'll discuss philosophy, tools, and > >practical advice for simpler, more reliable, and more powerful > >computing without a desktop environment, surveying everything from > >non-annoying network profile handling to the wide world of mouse-free > >window management and everything in between. > > I can use a minimal desktop like Xfce, but I'm trying to imagine how I > could function without any desktop at all, even if I was a master at > shell scripts, which I most definitely am not.
I strongly suspect that the speaker is going to demonstrate life without a desktop environment, such as Gnome, KDE, etc., and not life without any graphical user interface, at all. Such a desktop has the usual X-compatible windowing system, window manager, GUI applications, etc., but lacks the hundreds of megabytes worth of canned applications, preference panels, automagic configurators, and more that you get with desktop environments. A desktop sans desktop environment appeals to power users and/or minimalists that like to work a little closer to the moving parts; dislike the software making assumptions for them; don't have the storage or processor for all-singing-all-dancing desktops; etc. (The terminology can be confusing.) -- Paul Mullen _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
