<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu" target="_blank">warlord@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> I would. As I said in my original reply in this thread -- you either adopt<br>
> systemd to run the newest versions of GNOME or you don't get GNOME. That's<br>
> why this BSD project exists, to add support for a system they do not want<br>
> just so they can continue to use a desktop manager. It is a completely<br>
> ludicrous situation that a specific system I it manager is required to use<br>
> a desktop environment.<br>
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</span>Personally I'd rather see GNOME die.<br></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>But, but, but, ..... We NEED a windows style registry for Linux. My life would be so incomplete without it!<br><br></div><div>OK. We really need a window manager that actually uses every compiled and scripting language there is. Gnome needs to add a few more, that are all required, of course, to be fully complete on the "fracktheusermaintaintingthismess" scale. Ada, ruby and LISP and it's done.<br><br></div><div>May need some fortran for graphics <br><br>:-)<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Long live XFCE! :)<br>
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