Hi,
I don't want to start a 'Bandwidth wasting desktop holy war', but for
many users customizing their work environment by editting fvwm<nn>
configuration files is just not friendly enough.
If Linux is to become a replacement for Windoze, the man in the
street who does not know (and does not want to know) 'vi' or 'ed' or
other noble UNIX editors will want something like KDE.
I agree that the GUI _implementation_ of M$ is not very successfull <smirk>,
(actually, not _just_ the GUI implementation) but provided drag and drop and
other GUI stuff really works (like in KDE, for example) it is very useful
and user friendly.
KDE may not be as fast as fvwm, but it comes with an integrated set of
tools (which is expanding weekly) and is easy to configurate. And speed is
relative of course, I use a 233MHZ/64MB box and am quite happy with KDE 1.1.
Anyway, it's all a matter of taste and opinion. Here at work I am forced to use
OpenLook with a lot of shell tool stuff, and I get by :).
Peace and Linux,
Martijn
= Martijn van den Burg
= Tech writer, archiver, Linux user
= Publications Department, ASML
>
> I use the good old traditional fvwm2, it works *very nicely*. KDE in my
> opinion, is like going back to all the crap GUI principles given to us by
> Micro$oft. It's incredibly slow in addition. Besides which, who needs a
> 'desktop' when you have tkDesktop File Manager if you like that sort of
> thing - a real UN*X application that gives you back a little of the power of
> established command-line tools, not some attempt to copy M$.
> k.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: suse-linux-e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 6:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Desktop Managers
>
>
> :
> :Delbaere, Tim wrote:
> :>
> :> Hello,
> :>
> :> What desktop managers would you recommend, and why. I have KDM that came
> :> with my SuSE 5.2, and I have heard about KDE 1.1, but what about some of
> the
> :> others like Afterstep, Gnome, Enlightenment.
> :>
> :> What do they have to offer, what is good or bad about them, and why?
> :
> :
> :I recommend xfce.
> :
> :Pro: small, fast, uses low RAM, easy to install, VERY
> :CONFIGURABLE.
> :Con: No kill option on root window menu - nothing an xterm
> :won't fix.
> :
> :I found KDE 1.0 would fill 128MB RAM and 64MB swap in 4
> :days, forcing
> :a reboot to clear it out. I changed out wm, still using same
> :apps,
> :and am having no problems.
> :
> :George
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