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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Martin Herrman <martin@×××××××.nl> posted |
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> 40bb8d3b0906170618g152b5f8fxc79889f0d6213bf6@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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> below, on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:18:24 +0200: |
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>> "The Xfce 4 Appfinder is part of the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and |
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>> features application search on the whole system. It searches for |
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>> .desktop files based on the freedesktop spec and makes an index of the |
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>> found apps." |
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>> Source: xfce website: |
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>> http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfce4-appfinder |
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>> |
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>> Does Gentoo use these .desktop files? |
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> In general, yes, as it's a freedesktop.org standard now and both KDE and |
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> GNOME use them too. However, whether individual (non-main-DE) apps |
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> packages include them would depend on either upstream (if it ships, so |
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> will Gentoo in most cases) or the the initiative of the individual Gentoo |
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> package maintainer, if upstream doesn't ship one. |
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> On the title question, I've never used it, but based on what others have |
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> said and the originally requested features (including an auto-managed |
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> menu), I too would recommend XFCE. It seems to be /the/ middle ground |
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> between a "full feature" DE and a bare-bones WM, and gets very high |
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> reviews in general. If I ever decide KDE's not for me any more, or |
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> perhaps for my netbook when I get around to putting Gentoo on it, if I |
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> don't like KDE's performance, I've always thought I'd try XFCE first. |
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> But on my main machine, at least kde3 has been great. I can't say the |
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> same for kde4 (yet?), for a couple reasons. First, one of the big kde4 |
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> features is 3D eye candy... that my aging Radeon 9200 can't handle at the |
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> 1920x2400 desktop size I run (it maxes at 2048 each, X and Y), and |
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> without that, there really isn't enough better (and a lot changed enough |
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> I'm not comfortable with it) to upgrade from kde3. Second, I've so |
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> deeply customized kde3 to my own needs and style, and kde4 is so much |
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> changed, that it's simply different enough that even with full 3D |
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> features, it'd take me awhile to get kde4 setup similarly effectively/ |
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> comfortably. |
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> So, I have both kde3/4 merged, and occasionally run 4 and mess around |
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> some, but for actually doing anything productive, it's kde3 (or the text |
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> console). Sometime later this year I plan to upgrade to, probably, one |
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> of the later r500 based Radeons (which run thru the x1950 models), and |
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> meanwhile, kde-4.3.0 and likely 4.3.1 will be out, and we'll see how kde4 |
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> does then. |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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I suspect that XFCE might be a good one to look at. Thanks. |
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Any thoughts from folks about fvwm? |
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thanks to Marc for the pointer to fbpanel. I'll certainly take a look at that. |
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cheers, |
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Mark |