On 23 June 2011 18:58, Christoph Wickert <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] > I am not restricting anybody, I just said that most people will only > have one and we will force them to have specific menu entries for very > generic items. IMHO this is restriction. [snip] >> > I doubt average users really have two different programs installed in >> > case one breaks. And if something breaks, you can easily install >> > another terminal. But you cannot just install another email client, >> > you need to configure it and if you are not using IMAP, you won't >> > have your mail available. So this is much more critical - but I doubt >> > that anybody has installed two mail clients for that unlikely case. [snip] > I think web browsers are not generic. If they just embedded webkit or > gecko, nobody would install two different browsers based on the same > rendering engine. My two cents: some people like choice. Example: On Linux I use three browsers: Firefox, SeaMonkey and Opera (the first two based on the same rendering engine). There are several reasons. Firefox is the one I use most, but I configured it with the most restrictive settings, such as ad blocker, flash blocker, cookie blocker, and white-list JavaScript blocker. I configured SeaMonkey to be somewhat more permissive. The other reason for these two browsers is that on Firefox I use one Yahoo account, and on SeaMonkey a different one. This is not possible with a single browser. Also I use Gmail with SeaMonkey but Google with Firefox, for a bit of privacy. I use Opera mostly because I found it somewhat better with my Hotmail account, and I have no extension or plugins for it, for those cases where I need even less restrictions. And I have about a dozen terminals installed, though I use four or five on a regular basis. XFCE terminal is for my root shell, with a particular background colour, so that my eyes are conditioned that I know I am root just by the colour. Gnome-terminal is for general purpose uses. LxTerminal is because that is the default for LxPanel, although I don't have a compelling reason to use it. For top/htop I use xterm or aterm as they are faster and configured for smaller size. At the moment I use only one email client (Thunderbird), but in the past on Windows I used two (Outlook and Thunderbird), each configured to fetch mail from different accounts, and I may still use two clients on Linux, as I am thinking of trying Claws. With alacarte I modified some of the entries on the menu, such as "Terminal (Gnome)" and "Terminal (XFCE)". I even use two panels on my desktop (Lx and XFCE) and two monitors (Conky and GkrellM). I love choice! _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce
