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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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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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