On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:05:43 -0700 Michael Dexter <dex...@ambidexter.com> dijo:
>KDE, Unity, even XFCE, are massive, complex software environments that >achieve simplicity of user experience through rigid adherence to a >given paradigm - and once you can write a shell script, they do >remarkably little for you. We'll discuss philosophy, tools, and >practical advice for simpler, more reliable, and more powerful >computing without a desktop environment, surveying everything from >non-annoying network profile handling to the wide world of mouse-free >window management and everything in between. I can use a minimal desktop like Xfce, but I'm trying to imagine how I could function without any desktop at all, even if I was a master at shell scripts, which I most definitely am not. I started my day by writing a couple pages with LO Writer where I alternated between American English and polytonic Greek, which uses not only a different alphabet, but up to three diacritics per letter. Then I wrote several pages for phonetics students where I used the International Phonetic Alphabet extensively (Unicode 250 to 2AD, plus a few outside of that block). Then I downloaded a pic from my phone, spent 15 minutes altering it in the GIMP, then uploaded it to Craigslist using Firefox. Can I do all of this without a desktop environment using just shell scripts? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
