[ale] just thinking
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Mon Jan 27 13:05:23 EST 2014
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 12:39 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The longer I use gnome, the more it just becomes a container for
> terminal sessions.
Very true... My entire "Desktop 0" is nothing but terminal windows
scattered around 12 viewports (4 wide x 3 high 2d viewport geometry). I
switch viewports depending on what domain and tasking the various
terminal windows are grouped into. It's a workflow management thing.
>
Desktop 1 is for my web browsing and RSS feed readers.
Desktop 2 is for my E-Mail. I'm currently typing on 2:0:0 where my root
evolution window lives. If I'm interrupted, I move a message in
progress to another viewport and get it out of the way while I deal with
the interrupt. This one does tend to get underutilized for the multiple
viewports.
Desktop 3 is for IM of various sorts (Pidgin in 3:0:0 for most but
terminal windows and IRC in some other viewports).
Desktop 4 is for Office utilities (Open Office), multimedia (graphics
work, audio, video editing, etc) and remote desktops (nx remote desktops
around the net). OpenOffice is often open with multiple windows
(documents and spreadsheets) on 4:0:0 while Remmina and my various
remote desktops are homed off of 4:1:0 with some windows relocated to
other viewports depending on their group.
Desktop 5 is for anything that doesn't fit in the first 5 desktops.
6 active desktops that are each 4 viewports wide and 3 viewports high.
All hot key accessible. That's my gold standard. Try that with your
window manager. Yeah, I'm ADHD on top of OCD and certifiable.
That's using XFCE with the e16 window manager.
> 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> 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
> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>
>
>
> >>> "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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