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On 31/07/2014 09:23, Dale wrote: |
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> Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 04:41:24AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote |
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>>> I occasionally tried razorqt or enlightenment or twm... |
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>>> and yeah, they load quickly. And then they are all useless for me. |
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>> I run ICEWM with 9 work areas dedicated to specific "tasks" or forums. |
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>> A desktop environment doesn't provide me that much extra functionality. |
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>> I suppose some of my inertia is due to starting to use ICEWM and *BOX |
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>> back when I had a Dell with 256 megabytes of RAM and an 8-megabyte ATI |
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>> video card. That machine lasted for 7 years or so. My current one is |
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>> over 6 years old. |
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> On a rig that has limited resources, you are doing what I would do as |
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> well, outside the USE="-*" thing. :-D I would use Fluxbox or some |
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> other very light GUI. I'd keep it simple so that when I click |
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> something, I don't have to go get a drink while I am waiting. And in |
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> some cases, have plenty of time to drink it as well. |
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> What a person uses has to be based on what it is being used on and what |
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> the user expects. All about balance. |
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There's a huge difference between recognizing a resource-constrained |
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machine and acting appropriately on the one hand, and ranting about |
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bloat on the other. |
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One usually involves sensible thought, the other usually doesn't. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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