Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:23:02 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010529112302.A3636@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:38:14PM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on May 28, 2001 at 15:38:14: > At 02:01 PM 5/28/2001, Chris Moline wrote: > > > >What reasons?? There are lots of commercial desktops that are crap. > > A commercial model is no guarantee of quality, but it may well be > a prerequisite. > > One of the most underrated desktops -- and one I would dearly love > to see ported to the BSDs -- is GeoWorks. Tiny, super-efficient, > object-oriented, and INCREDIBLY fast. If you want fast, I'd suggest xfce. I haven't used it in over a year, but when I last used it I was very impressed. The problem on the desktop is not a lack of choices, not even a lack of quality. Some people on the linux side argue that having KDE, GNOME and various other things is confusing for a third-party developer, and they could be right. Many people, on this list too, seem to agree KDE has what it takes. The problem is the applicationss, and it's not really a lack of applications either -- just a lack of the sort of applications people are used to in the windows world. And even here, KDE has covered a *huge* amount of ground in the last 18 months (KOffice, Konqueror, Kmail, etc) -- and they've now declared that all their infrastructure is in place, working, and reasonably problem-free, so they can concentrate on the applications side. I expect great things from them in the next 18 months. - R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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