On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 19 October 2014 00:29, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm afraid that Gnome is a bloated serpent's nest of interwoven >> features and Unweaving it into something lighter, architecturally >> rational, and supportable as individual components would be like >> putting handlebars on a Jeep. It might actually work better than the >> steering wheel, but it's a lot of extra integration work to maintain >> and likely to break with the next upstream revision. > > > In general this is the case for all desktop environments. After you start > getting a use case need for X, then all of a sudden you have to either > rewrite from scratch to keep the sizes down (the Rasterman Enlightenment > approach) or begin pulling in various things that each require 2 or 3 other > things and interdepend on 4 or 5 items that may have no use in the work > environment you are trying to fix.. but might in some other. The Rasterman > approach has its bonuses but usually finds itself with a growing list of > "but I need to do this.." that each require a re-engineering from the ground > up. Or one can be a regressive Luddite, like me, and stick with the very lightweight and painfully twm (built into X windows itself) or somewhat enhanced but also incredibly stable vtwm. ( RPM building tools at https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm, with the source for vtwm itself at http://www.vtwm.org).
