From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 23:36:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C181065697 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 23:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from guam10.hdk5.net (guam10.hdk5.net [66.180.132.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992C68FC19 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 23:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noc@hdk5.net) Received: from mohawk7.intra.net (unknown [66.180.149.18]) by guam10.hdk5.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673ED5C22; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:39:14 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <490CE7FE.807@hdk5.net> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:36:30 -1000 From: Al Plant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 FreeBSD/i386 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yuri@rawbw.com References: <490C0159.3000908@rawbw.com> <20081101163322.B10508@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081101160415.GB14218@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081101174556.L11029@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <490C955C.2010201@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <490C955C.2010201@rawbw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:36:31 -0000 Yuri wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. >> that's why i compare it to windoze. >> >> and why you need "desktop" (whatever it means) at all? > > You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users. > Also GUI makes life much easier even for advanced users. > I don't want to deal command lines/config files for mundane > things like finding and setting up wireless networks, playing > CDs/DVDs, etc. GUI integrated with desktop would make this > much less time consuming. >> >> just window manager is enough, try fvwm2 maybe icewm maybe other etc. >> > not really enough. > > Unfortunately open source is pretty much a failure when it comes to GUI and > desktop. Any kind of GUI, look at ddd for example. Untested > development-stage > software (like kde4) is being released to the public for some reason. > > Yuri > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ################### Aloha, Try XFCE 3 or 4 for an excellent OS window manager. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* - 8.* + < email: noc@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol