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From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:11:50
Message-Id: 4FDEFE7D.50202@hadt.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment by Michael Mol
1 Am 17.06.2012 23:33, schrieb Michael Mol:
2 > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote
6 >>>
7 >>>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You
8 >>>> don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and
9 >>>> don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for
10 >>>> whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you
11 >>>> should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another
12 >>>> desktop.
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>> My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I
16 >>> don't run desktops, I run applications.
17 >>
18 >>
19 >> It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each
20 >> application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way.
21 >> This is why DEs are so popular.
22 >
23 > We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;)
24 >
25
26 Haha, that one made me smile :)