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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Paul |
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Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> A discussion on another list made me realize I'm a little tired of |
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>> Gnome. It does what I need, mostly, but it feels sort of old and dry. |
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>> I haven't run KDE in years but I'm hesitant to build it and keep it up |
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>> to date. I really think I'd like something more minimalistic. I ran |
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>> fluxbox years ago and liked that it was small and fast but at the time |
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>> getting to apps was a hand-crafted menu editing task that I'd rather |
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>> not repeat today. |
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>> QUESTION: Is there something small, fast but also easy to use in |
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>> terms of the environment automatically creating menus when apps are |
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>> added or removed with emerge? |
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>> From a pure-fun standpoint something 3D might be fun, but I don't |
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>> need it and expect that my old ATI Radeon X300 card probably isn't up |
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>> to the task anyway. |
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>> How do others choose a window manager and what do you value in your |
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>> window manager that makes you stick with it? |
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> I use KDE4 and keep XFCE as a backup. I use KDM as login manager and |
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> it easily lets me choose which one I want. I use only XFCE on my |
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> laptop because compiling gnome or KDE is just too much work for it. I |
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> could easily use XFCE (or Gnome) as primary desktop environment and be |
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> happy, but I'm just used to KDE. |
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Hi Paul, |
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I do a lot of audio work using apps and a kernel (rt-sources) from |
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the pro-audio overlay. Jack, Ardour, etc. Really low latency and NO |
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long window manager |
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delays are more important for me that they probably are for others. I |
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ran KDE years ago and it just didn't work very well, but in those days |
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even Gnome wasn't very good so I used fluxbox which was great. Well, |
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today Gnome is fine, and maybe KDE would be also. Historically it just |
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wasn't a good fit more me in the past. |
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I guess the other thing that I'm interested in is getting beyond |
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this "flat/old Gnome is sort of like Windows" sensation that I am |
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feeling right now so to warrant the effort to actually use something I |
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suppose I am really looking for something with a really different feel |
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but it still really works in terms of getting jobs done. Something |
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that makes me feel good about even firing up the desktop. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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