Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
Am 17.06.2012 23:33, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote >>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another desktop. >>> >>> >>> My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I >>> don't run desktops, I run applications. >> >> >> It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each >> application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way. >> This is why DEs are so popular. > > We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;) > Haha, that one made me smile :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 17:33:58 schrieb Michael Mol: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote > >> > >>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You > >>> don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and > >>> don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for > >>> whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you > >>> should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another > >>> desktop. > >> > >> My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I > >> don't run desktops, I run applications. > > > > It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than > > each > > application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way. > > This is why DEs are so popular. > > We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;) and it wasn't even that unified. And certainly not the feel with every application reacting differently to some keypress. -- #163933
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
On 18/06/12 00:33, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another desktop. My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I don't run desktops, I run applications. It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way. This is why DEs are so popular. We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;) That was a corporate Unix thing though, not desktop Linux. Good riddance :-P
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:17:46 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their > > houses"; I don't run desktops, I run applications. > > It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than > each application inventing the same things in a different and > incompatible way. This is why DEs are so popular. There's more to a DE than that. On as multitasking system, applications are not run in isolation. A integrated system allows applications to work together rather than just running at the same time. -- Neil Bothwick This tagline is baroque; please call Bach. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote >> >>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You >>> don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and >>> don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for >>> whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you >>> should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another >>> desktop. >> >> >> My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I >> don't run desktops, I run applications. > > > It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each > application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way. > This is why DEs are so popular. We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;) -- :wq
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another desktop. My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I don't run desktops, I run applications. It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way. This is why DEs are so popular.
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment
On Jun 17, 2012 4:42 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > So, while we're meta-discussing Linus' rant on Gnome3, here's an article from TechRadar exploring the usability of the leading Linux desktop environments. > > http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/whats-the-best-linux-desktop-environment-1045280 > > Summary: Try the latest KDE. You might get pleasantly surprised. > Here's the mobile version of the above: http://m.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/whats-the-best-linux-desktop-environment-1045280 Rgds,
