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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:16:37
Message-Id: 53F0FF8B.50608@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !) by thegeezer
1 Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer:
2 > Howdy,
3 > on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's
4 > slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have
5 > never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3)
6 > krunner equivalent is "start everything module" and resembles gnome-do
7 > i prefer to use pcmanfm/thunar than the e file manager and nice as
8 > terminology is i'm still using terminator
9 >
10 > the big question really is why are you looking for a DE - what is
11 > offered in it that you don't already have?
12 > while i understand from the lengthy update you want all K apps or all
13 > GTK to minimise the update - i myself mix and match where i have need
14 >
15 > from my own experience a DE gives you
16 > 1. easy hotplug devices i.e. usb disks (or you can emerge dbus,polkit
17 > and udisks and add policy rules manually)
18 > 2. "session" management, i.e. you can switch users without logging out
19 > 3. bundled apps / libraries
20 > 4. "killer features" such as the K activities
21 > 5. can anyone add to this list ?
22 >
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 apps that actually work with each other.

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Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !) thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net>