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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:54:24
Message-Id: 6571812.jnOVW1BxyT@energy
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment by Michael Mol
1 Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 17:33:58 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 > >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote
5 > >>
6 > >>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You
7 > >>> don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and
8 > >>> don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for
9 > >>> whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you
10 > >>> should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another
11 > >>> desktop.
12 > >>
13 > >> My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I
14 > >> don't run desktops, I run applications.
15 > >
16 > > It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than
17 > > each
18 > > application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way.
19 > > This is why DEs are so popular.
20 >
21 > We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;)
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23 and it wasn't even that unified. And certainly not the feel with every
24 application reacting differently to some keypress.
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