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From: thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:58:32
Message-Id: 53F0FB36.2080502@thegeezer.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !) by behrouz khosravi
1 Howdy,
2 on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's
3 slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have
4 never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3)
5 krunner equivalent is "start everything module" and resembles gnome-do
6 i prefer to use pcmanfm/thunar than the e file manager and nice as
7 terminology is i'm still using terminator
8
9 the big question really is why are you looking for a DE - what is
10 offered in it that you don't already have?
11 while i understand from the lengthy update you want all K apps or all
12 GTK to minimise the update - i myself mix and match where i have need
13
14 from my own experience a DE gives you
15 1. easy hotplug devices i.e. usb disks (or you can emerge dbus,polkit
16 and udisks and add policy rules manually)
17 2. "session" management, i.e. you can switch users without logging out
18 3. bundled apps / libraries
19 4. "killer features" such as the K activities
20 5. can anyone add to this list ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !) Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>