On 1/21/06, Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > even go back to Afterstep or Enlightenment, but for now kde-3.5 works > for me. >
May I ask others' experiences with e17? I just wasted my holiday installing e17 on two of three machines. It is smaller than Kde, but background is 20% of cpu . Buggy. Beautiful. A PITA to configure, and menus suck. I don't think I'll be there long. I liked enlightenment .16 except I guess I really do need icons to remind me of what I've got on the system, and good menus. I still haven't decided to dump e17 for real, but in looking back, I did note how heavy KDE 3.5 is. Gnome: my employers already treat me like a child; I need options and flexibility. KDE is ugly IMHO: I blew that windows-like pop stand years ago. However, for some reason KDE developers in some, but NOT ALL cases, seem to wind up with a more polished package. Compare Kalzium and gperiodic. On really good days, I fire up fluxbox or a console. The bottom line on GUIs is ease of use. The tradeoff is flexibility and options. Nautilus works nicely, and for the first time I am using a GUI file manager for large scale reorganization of my filesystems. But one glaring deficiency keeps hitting me in the face---you can't do links with them. Noone has figured out how to make links user friendly? It's too complicated for the end user? So using a graphic user interface on a Unix-like system has led GNU/Linux back toward the idiot proof pseudo operating system: like MS-DOG being an idiotproofed unix-like system. Comments after having recently installed a bunch of GUI setups. Alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
