Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 Desktop Environment.
AFAIK the decision has been made to use Mate. I think this is a good decision, and I might start recommending Trisquel 8 to new users switching from Windows/MacOSX (I currently recommend Mint as a stepping stone from proprietary OS to fully libre GNU/Linux). GNOME 3 is great, but in most metrics I've seen it's the third most resource-hungry DE after Unity and KDE. Even in Fallback, it probably still uses more resources than XFCE, and definitely uses much more resources than Mate. There's a good blog piece from 2013 on memory usage of DEs here, complete with a bar graph: https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/
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I'm not into telling anyone what to do or not to do, but I think it's worth asking you to consider what impression that picture and SuperTramp83's comment would give a women browsing these forums to see if she was welcome and respected in the Trisquel community. Not judging, just inviting reflection and awareness.
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>> Then in the process of changing distros (I'm a distro hopper) I accidentally deleted the configuration file. I didn't have the heart to go back and go through the process of getting it back the way I wanted it.
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This sounds like microsoft in a nutshell... A screaming kicking spoiled child. ;)
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That desktop was a huge hit and has remained the standard for good reason. MS kept it right up to Windows 7 which was also widely popular. It only abandoned that look and feel for Windows 8's tablet interface, and only then NOT in response to user demand, but rather as an iPad-fighting tactic, something MS force-fed desktop and laptop users to get them enmeshed and invested in a tablet ecosystem so they'd buy a Windows tablet when tablet-buying time came around. Typical user reaction ranged from confusion to frustration to outright fury, with utilities restoring a semblance of the beloved standard look and feel being heavily used. MS was dragged kicking and screaming into a grudging partial restoration of the status quo ante in 8.1 and a further step back in 10.
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I'm too new to upvote I guess, so this reply will have to do.
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At your age, everyone looks young. :D
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So anyway, nobody knows what the plans are for Trisquel 8 as far as desktop environments are concerned?
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The most configurable window manager out there. I used it once. I downloaded a configuration file from some fvwm site and fiddled with it until I figured out how to control the main features. It's addicting, but it took me a couple of weeks to get things the way I wanted them. Then in the process of changing distros (I'm a distro hopper) I accidentally deleted the configuration file. I didn't have the heart to go back and go through the process of getting it back the way I wanted it. I think I was running slackware at the time. fvwm is installed by default in slackware. Here's a screenshot from back then. My setup was a bit busier than yours. But with fvwm you can really set it up any way you want.
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some I used briefly, some for an extended period of time, xfce is, like the usa fellows say "da sh.t" !
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I've been playing around with xfce this afternoon and I've got to say it's great. Much better (in my opinion) than Gnome Fallback.
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seems pretty developed to me.
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The photo is from a page wallpapers. I don't have any photo of young girls on my computer. The link of the page wallpaper: http://www.thepaperwall.com/ The link of the photo: http://www.thepaperwall.com/wallpaper.php?view=7c6fa2358df0676a592f52e73afec0753c533fa2 Sorry for my bad english. La foto es de una página de wallpapers. No tengo ninguna foto de chicas menores en mi equipo. El link de la pagina de wallpapers: http://www.thepaperwall.com/ El link de la foto: http://www.thepaperwall.com/wallpaper.php?view=7c6fa2358df0676a592f52e73afec0753c533fa2 Un saludo!.
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She looks a little too young. Maybe you should advertise that you have a cache of underage photos on your PC.
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, now that's what I call a sexy desktop! +2142513252352345
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LXDE Forever!!
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^ my man!
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Looks like Scroogle's surveillance Crummy OS. Of course it is simple, and people may enjoy that. I would vote XFCE, it's what I have installed on all instances of Trisquel for Windows users, and they seem to like it just fine. I use Whiskermenu though instead of the standard one for a more Windows 7ish feel.
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Yeah, as pointed out, it's fvwm, the default window manager/DE in OpenBSD/LibertyBSD.
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it is fvwm
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it is fvwm
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lodier, what desktop environment are you using?
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...so says the person who promotes MATE desktop environment...
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It doesn't have to be intimidating and the new users, if they are intimidated, don't have to utilize the configurability. It can be set up to look and act just like gnome fallback. If you don't like it that way, then you can learn to set it up the way you want.
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You can make xfce look almost exactly like the traditional Trisquel Gnome desktop. It looks a lot better than fallback. The panel can actually handle transparency. The same is true of Mate, of course, but there are a few things that I can't get Mate to do that are easy in XFCE.
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The MATE packages in Ubuntu 16.04 are high quality and fully supported upstream. Why go back to the Gnome fallback hack job of previous releases?
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1995 called. It wants its desktop back.
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They have some really nice wallpapers. I wish they were PNG but JPG does the job as well.
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loldier you can take nice wallpapers from https://wallpaperscraft.com/ and you can download images by resolution
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Budgie Desktop is also a good choice. However, it is not available in Debian/Ubuntu repositories. A lot of work is going for the sam.e Eventhough it is on early stage of development, it provide a solid, traditional looking, modern desktop environment. It supports all gnome 3 shortcuts.
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> Users that want flexibility can take a few moments to install XFCE :p after the word "flexibility" you omitted a bunch of words, and I'd like to complete the sentence if you don't mind: Users that want flexibility, stability, performance and sexyness can take a few moments to install XFCE 8-)
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I'd say stick with GNOME fallback or something similar. It's simple, familiar, and stylish-- which is perfect for your average home user, a target audience for Trisquel. XFCE4 is much more flexible, which could be intimidating for new users coming from Windows or OSX. Users that want flexibility can take a few moments to install XFCE :p
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Thanks. Here you go.
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I got it by googling "wallpaper" and looking at images. I can't find it now, but I uploaded it to imgur. Here's the link. http://imgur.com/7qeGN2D
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Sauron's personal desktop environment.
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Where do I get the wallpaper? It's nice. The file size limit is, by the way, 2 megabytes. That's probably why your screenshot didn't come through the first time.
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MATE for rule them all.
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Here it is. I tried before and had a hard time.
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Where is the screenshot?
