<p dir="ltr">Ha!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Twm (still use it for single window tools) led to fvwm(f%+ked view window manager was its snarky name). Somewhere I found 3d desktop that was literally a desk with file drawers. Click on drawer an it opened and a rendering of 3 tab folder appeared. Drag the mouse across the top to "thumb" the folders to read through the names. Click to open folder and repeat process across "sheets" to find files to open. I've dug around and can't find it or the name any more. Open files and folders piled on the desktop. Printing was done by "dropping" the file on the printer image. Really cool graphics.<br>
Then I actually bought a license for CDE.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thought kde was a nice improvement but didn't like the proprietary license on the core libraries. So gnome happened. I've cussed at every major change until I got the hang of it and found the keyboard shortcuts.<br>
I still cuss at it.<br>
I cuss at most all computers now.<br>
They deserve it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I hate grass. Don't care who walks on the mud.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 26, 2016 7:48 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">OK, Since I really don't want to hijack (ok, I do, just a little bit) anybody<br>
else's thread:<br>
<br>
I started out on KDE and it was pretty good. But having three ways to get to<br>
every piece of software was pretty strange for a newbie. I never was sure<br>
where an app was stored or the actual name for it.<br>
<br>
I moved to Gnome and found it simple, and yet very capable of complex<br>
customization.<br>
<br>
Then someone decided to fix KDE and it became un-usable (to me).<br>
<br>
OK, that simplified my life, I will just use Gnome. Then Gnome was fixed.<br>
<br>
It became unusable to me.<br>
<br>
I will use XFCE. It IS pretty good, but, and yet, it lacks a coherent thread<br>
for all apps.<br>
<br>
Unity. well, it's better than Gnome shell (tm). Gnome shell. well, its<br>
Gnome Shell, what gnome became after someone fixed what was a perfectly usable<br>
interface.<br>
<br>
What's wrong with a menu? I like Menus. I don't like typing and hoping that,<br>
somehow, I will remember the correct name of some app. Everybody wants to<br>
make a computer interface that will work on a mobile device. Why? I expect<br>
my computer to be a computer and my mobile device to be, well, a mobile<br>
device. Completely different use case.<br>
<br>
If you use Gnome, and install a dock, like docky (to simple) or Cario dock, it<br>
then becomes usable in terms of productivity.<br>
<br>
Oh, but wait, now I can't use Gnome because I break with Canon and use<br>
proprietary drivers, and no, before you ask, open drivers do NOT compare to<br>
the performance levels in either processing 3d graphics nor in just making the<br>
desktop "Pop". GDM does not work with ATI drivers.<br>
<br>
so. 16 years after I started, I am trying out KDE Plasma. JUST installed.<br>
This is typed in Kmail, one of my former past favorites of all desktop email<br>
apps (so much so, I used to install KDE PIM in xfce4). First impressions are<br>
pretty good. Do you know, it actually has menus.? I shall see what I think<br>
in a week or two.<br>
<br>
After I install Catalyst drivers in Fedora 23. Excuse me for liking to unwind<br>
by killing a few random bad guy/zombies and actually having a frame rate that<br>
makes it seamless.<br>
<br>
One more thing, GET OFF MY GRASS!<br>
<br>
*opinions expressed are those of the author. Views differing from those<br>
expressed are understood to be wrong and with out subjective merit.<br>
--<br>
Damon<br>
<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a><br>
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