On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:23:11PM +0100, so wrote: > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 17:51:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] > >Then again, I never believed in the desktop metaphor, and have never > >seriously used Gnome or KDE or any of that fluffy stuff. I was on > >VTWM until I decided ratpoison (a mouseless WM) better suited the way > >I worked. > > I am also using light window managers. Most of the time only tmux > and gvim running. I tried many WMs but if you are using it > frequently and don't like falling back to windows and such, you need > a WM working seamlessly with GUIs. Gimp is one. (You might not > believe in desktop but how would you use a program like Gimp?) Now > most of the tiling WMs suck at handling that kind of thing. Using > xmonad now, at least it has a little better support.
I don't use tiling WMs. And frankly, Gimp's multi-window interface (or OpenOffice, I mean, LibreOffice, for that matter) is very annoying. That's why I don't use gimp very much. I just use command-line imagemagick tools to do stuff. And when I need to generate complex images, I use povray. :-P (Or write my own image generating algos.) But I don't do much fancy stuff with images anyway, otherwise I would've figured out a way to make gimp work nicely. But on the point of WMs, the only *real* GUI app that I use regularly is the browser. (And Skype, only because the people I want to talk to are on the other side of the world and they only have Skype. But this is only once a week as opposed to every day.) I pull up OpenOffice / LibreOffice every now and then, under protest, when it's *absolutely* necessary. Pretty much everything else I do in the terminal. So I don't really use any "desktop" features at all anyway. That's why I like ratpoison: maximize everything, no overlapping/tiling windows, and keyboard controls for everything. T -- Real Programmers use "cat > a.out".