On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:44:11AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > I think I can live without GNOME, so for me this is no problem at all. I > think a lot of people on this list can live without GNOME.
No GNOME here, no KDE, no such things, just to confirm, I am best without it. > Dbus isn't part of my world, and when software tries to make dbus part > of my world, I tend to ditch that software. Dbus is a traffic circle > allowing everything to talk to everything else, addressing allowing. > It's a system-wide global variable on steroids. I would like to kick it out, if I could, I just don't know how. > To me, Linux is and should remain a DIY accessible OS, and that > requires shunning all things FreeDesktop.Org. That was made by corporations for corporations and their interests. They don't do anything in my specific interest. Like who said I need ~/Desktop? I don't need it. But applications are creating it automatically. Who says I want to keep ~/Video ~/Music and such? Or that I want to open files with xdg-open? That type of control of how commands shall be executed and what directories/folders shall users have on their systems, I have tried to escape back in 1999, when I switched from Windows. And now we see the same pattern. Jean Louis
