Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment

2012-06-18 Thread Michael Hampicke


Am 17.06.2012 23:33, schrieb Michael Mol:
 On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com 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

2012-06-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com 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. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment

2012-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment

2012-06-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 17:33:58 schrieb Michael Mol:
 On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com 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.


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