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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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