<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:33 AM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I[f] I wanted to be told what I could do with my desktop, I'd use a Mac.<br>
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This statement has nothing to do with the review and isn't even true.<br></blockquote><div><br>The statement was in reference to the overall operation of desktop environment. As you stated that you no longer use gnome, you haven't seen what I've been looking at and working with. If you had, you would have very clearly understood the reference to the Mac interface and forced usage of the interface.<br>
<br>Don't want the skinny, anemic XFCE. It reminds me too much of the ancient CDE (that I actually paid for a decade plus ago to run on my redhat 4 system). I have no problem allocating some horsepower to my desktoip environment. But I expect that horsepower to provide some benefit to my use of the desktop. This time, gnome 3 did not provide that benefit and thus earns a FAIL rating.<br>
<br>I've also used LXDE and find it to be even thinner than XFCE. For those situations where I want little more than multiple xterms with mouse buffers, LXDE is what I use.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Back on topic, if you want to stick with the GTK+ libraries then I<br>
recommend XFCE. I don't even bother with Gnome or KDE nowadays. I just<br>
go straight to XFCE. It's lighter, faster, and does everything that<br>
needs to be done to provide a desktop environment.<br>
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