[ale] just thinking

Mon Jan 27 12:47:54 EST 2014

I personally like XFCE, Cinnamon, and Mate for a desktop. I never really 
liked KDE and it is aesthetic reasons not technical reasons, I can use 
it. I have played with Enlightenment. The current Gnome and Unity I can 
use but do not like for aesthetic reasons.

Jay
On 01/27/2014 12:39 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The longer I use gnome, the more it just becomes a container for 
> terminal sessions.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> I think my pupils are changing from round to rectangular.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:57 AM, James Taylor 
> <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com 
> <mailto:James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've never liked Gnome, starting with version 0.x.
>     I've been using KDE since I started using linux for my exclusive
>     desktop about 12 years ago.
>     I hated the 4.0 release, but I was able to continue using 3.x
>     until they got it sorted out.
>     I still like the configurability of KDE. I still have basically
>     the same setup that I did when I started.
>     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.
>     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.
>     Functionality beats pretty any day of the week.
>     -jt
>
>
>
>     James Taylor
>     678-697-9420 <tel:678-697-9420>
>     james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com <mailto:james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
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>
>
>     >>> "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> 1/27/2014 11:28 AM >>>
>     On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 14:12 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
>     > I gave up on KDE years ago, and on Gnome at 3.x. Before that, I was
>     > almost exclusively a Gnome user. These days, I've found that the
>     > simplicity of XFCE is best for me. It just gets out of my way, and
>     > lets me do what I need to do - switch between a bazillion terminal
>     > sessions, Firefox, and OpenOffice, while playing music in the
>     > background.
>
>     I've never been fond of KDE.  Reminded me too much of the old SCO ODT
>     desktop but it may have grown up some from when I tried it last.
>
>     I've pretty much given up on Gnome 3.x.  Looks ugly, they keep
>     making it
>     harder and harder to find the apps you want, and it's a performance
>     death trap.
>
>     I pretty much use XFCE with the Enlightenment 16 (yeah, I'm a die
>     hard)
>     window manager.
>
>     > --
>     > Allen Beddingfield
>     > Systems Engineer
>     > The University of Alabama
>
>     Regards,
>     Mike
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