Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:17:05 -0500 (EST) From: J McKitrick <jxm6801@megahertz.njit.edu> To: Jeff Bond <jeff@pixelfusion.co.uk> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@nojunk.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Gnome and 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991210090940.23124A-100000@megahertz.njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <000801bf42f0$cb471200$9c2da8c0@pixelfusion.co.uk>
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jeff Bond wrote: > I tend to agree with you about not really liking either KDE or Gnome. Both > KDE and Gnome try to copy MS Windows too much, along with all it's bad GUI > design features (Start menu for example). > > It strikes me that the developers of both are more concerned about making > them 'look' great, rather than 'function' great. As much as i love KDE and Gnome (at least the way they look and have so many applications) i have for the moment scrapped them all for WindowMaker. I'm not going to start a flame war on WM's but frankly windowmaker has all i need, and stability is one of those needs. I put the apps i need on the menus, and i leave a few icons around for other apps. And i use an xterm for the rest. It works great, has themes, but most of all, loads quickly and is very reliable. I'm no expert by any means.. maybe i'm even pushing it to say i am a low-intermediate... but i think that windowmaker (and also blackbox and other small ones) is very stable and does what i need it to do. Also, the desktop environments may be becoming dangerously bloated. Just a though on why RH gnome works so well (correct me if i'm wrong): RH pushed Gnome to be ready by 6.0. SO they had a direct hand in its development, and could therefore make it perform far more predictably and in an integrated manner with their OS. Us BSD folks just use the port, which is, AFAIK, based on original sources. If the port were patched as carefully for BSD as it apparently is for RedHat, maybe we could have the same smooth operation. But, back to my original comment, is that what we really want? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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