Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-22 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: Windowmaker is not present in newer versions of RH. Which is rather annoying, but not a problem as such. Even in older versions of RH it has not been maintained in RH for a long time. The menus are 80% filled with programs

Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread David Hart
KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty displays, animations or other visual effects that add

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 08:08, David Hart wrote: KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
David Hart wrote: KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty displays, animations or other visual

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:08:40PM -0400, David Hart wrote: There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty displays, animations or other visual effects that add nothing to usability. You don't need either one. I run just plain

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Hal Burgiss wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:08:40PM -0400, David Hart wrote: There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty displays, animations or other visual effects that add nothing to usability. You don't need

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: Windowmaker is not present in newer versions of RH. Even in older versions of RH it has not been maintained in RH for a long time. The menus are 80% filled with programs no longer in redhat. Who needs menus? ;-) I rarely

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 21 Jul 2003 18:08:40 -0400 David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:08:40PM -0400, David Hart wrote: Suggestions? Fvwm. http://www.fvwm.org/ Emmanuel -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Samuel Flory
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:08:40PM -0400, David Hart wrote: Suggestions? Fvwm. http://www.fvwm.org/ Why not just tell him to do this: cat .xinitrc exec xterm ^c -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread mark
On Monday 21 July 2003 08:51 pm, David Hart wrote: Suggestions? I tried a number. including fvwm, fvwm-themes, blackbox, metacity, xfce...and the one I've now decided to stay with, IceWM. Not too hard to install (though I had problems during an upgrade from RH 7.3 (updated) to 9.0, but

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Monday 21 July 2003 06:08 pm, David Hart wrote: KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives that are less ponderous. I'm much more interested in efficiency and speed than pretty

Re: Alternatives to KDE/Gnome?

2003-07-21 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 18:30, Michael Scottaline wrote: On 21 Jul 2003 18:08:40 -0400 David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KDE seems to run better than Gnome w/RH9 (for me - YMMV). Nevertheless both environments seem to have gone way over the top. There MUST be alternatives