<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>The longer I use gnome, the more it just becomes a container for terminal sessions.<br><br></div>For me, for the most part, gnome "works". The "lets copy Apple iPad" crap is beyond old and silly. It's a bad work flow (which gnome admitted they did _NO_ study of at all) as now things i could do with 1-3 clicks are 4-5 with scrolling and things I could do with 4-5 are not feasible.<br>
<br></div>Didn't use KDE from the beginning due to QT licensing. It looked to much like winders for too long so I haven't looked at it years.<br><br></div>XFCE is nice and light and pretty much stays out of my way. Haven't tinkered with Enlightenment is a long time. Always seemed like lots of eye candy distractions (but some of the themes were easy to read).<br>
<br></div>I think my pupils are changing from round to rectangular.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:57 AM, James Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com" target="_blank">James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've never liked Gnome, starting with version 0.x.<br>
I've been using KDE since I started using linux for my exclusive desktop about 12 years ago.<br>
I hated the 4.0 release, but I was able to continue using 3.x until they got it sorted out.<br>
I still like the configurability of KDE. I still have basically the same setup that I did when I started.<br>
Since I use the desktop for almost all of my daily work activities, change is bad, unless it improves the process. Change is especially bad if it doesn't work for me and doesn't give me an alternative to revert to the old way.<br>
I check out some of the other GUI environments occasionally, but I haven't seen the benefit the change would give me that would be worth the process of figuring out how to do all the things I do now without thinking about it.<br>
Functionality beats pretty any day of the week.<br>
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>>> "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@WittsEnd.com> 1/27/2014 11:28 AM >>><br>
<div><div class="h5">On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 14:12 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:<br>
> I gave up on KDE years ago, and on Gnome at 3.x. Before that, I was<br>
> almost exclusively a Gnome user. These days, I've found that the<br>
> simplicity of XFCE is best for me. It just gets out of my way, and<br>
> lets me do what I need to do - switch between a bazillion terminal<br>
> sessions, Firefox, and OpenOffice, while playing music in the<br>
> background.<br>
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I've never been fond of KDE. Reminded me too much of the old SCO ODT<br>
desktop but it may have grown up some from when I tried it last.<br>
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I've pretty much given up on Gnome 3.x. Looks ugly, they keep making it<br>
harder and harder to find the apps you want, and it's a performance<br>
death trap.<br>
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I pretty much use XFCE with the Enlightenment 16 (yeah, I'm a die hard)<br>
window manager.<br>
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> --<br>
> Allen Beddingfield<br>
> Systems Engineer<br>
> The University of Alabama<br>
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Mike<br>
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