Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Duncan<1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Mark Knecht posted > 5bdc1c8b0906181839r18d3a8c0yfa9d5da993d66...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on  Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:39:51 -0700: > >> This issue seems to come up occasionally. I'll download some zip file to >> my desk

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-18 Thread Duncan
Mark Knecht posted 5bdc1c8b0906181839r18d3a8c0yfa9d5da993d66...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:39:51 -0700: > This issue seems to come up occasionally. I'll download some zip file to > my desktop and use an archive manager to drag a bunch of stuff out. > Having done that

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Duncan
Mark Knecht posted 5bdc1c8b0906171350n10d32d2at83600ee6b31ba...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:50:17 -0700: > All of this probably make sense, and I'll do a little study on the > matter, but when running Ardour recording a band playing a live gig it's > a one-shot, you g

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Duncan<1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Paul Hartman posted > 58965d8a0906170914l4ebca650uba703a2a6b450...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:14:50 -0500: > >> Well, if you want something different then KDE4 is definitely >> different... for

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Duncan
Paul Hartman posted 58965d8a0906170914l4ebca650uba703a2a6b450...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:14:50 -0500: > Well, if you want something different then KDE4 is definitely > different... for better or for worse :) Agreed, but if he wants low latency, he'll probably wan

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Duncan
"Dmitri Pogosyan" posted 200906171636.n5hgarp03...@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca, excerpted below, on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:36:27 -0600: > I was never fond of split ebuilds, because I found you end up installing > almost everything anyway but managing them becomes much more cumbersome. > Bad example is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
I was never fond of split ebuilds, because I found you end up installing almost everything anyway but managing them becomes much more cumbersome. Bad example is X - I do not have qualification anyway to decide that I need this library but not that one, and it seems that every single library comes i

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Josh Sled
Mark Knecht writes: > QUESTION: I've been somewhat unhappy over the last year with Gentoo > package maintainers doing little updates to gnome files which seems to > drive more and more little updates. What do you mean, exactly? I upgrade weekly, and haven't really noticed this, or noticed it to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: > I used XFCE for a year, having mostly left kde-3.5 unused, but recently since > the update to 3.5.10 came out, and was modular, have updated to just barebone > kdebase-meta. You know - it feels faster than XFCE, and weights in kdebase + > co

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Duncan<1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Martin Herrman posted > 40bb8d3b0906170618g152b5f8fxc79889f0d6213...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted > below, on  Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:18:24 +0200: > >> "The Xfce 4 Appfinder is part of the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and >> features a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
I used XFCE for a year, having mostly left kde-3.5 unused, but recently since the update to 3.5.10 came out, and was modular, have updated to just barebone kdebase-meta. You know - it feels faster than XFCE, and weights in kdebase + couple apps I need, not much more. > I too would recommend XFCE.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How do I choose a second window manager?

2009-06-17 Thread Duncan
Martin Herrman posted 40bb8d3b0906170618g152b5f8fxc79889f0d6213...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted below, on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:18:24 +0200: > "The Xfce 4 Appfinder is part of the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and > features application search on the whole system. It searches for > .desktop files based