From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 4 13:33:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echoriath.hiddenrock.com (24-130-184-154.san.rr.com [24.130.184.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 972A337B479 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9969 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Nov 2000 21:35:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Nov 2000 21:35:16 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:35:16 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Johnson To: Heredity Choice Cc: Mark Rowlands , Nate Puri , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Satisfied w/ your desktop? In-Reply-To: <002201c0469d$8ee7ce60$3ac7ddd1@STORK> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've found that Enlightenment has enough "desktop environment"-type features to allow the deprecation of both KDE and GNOME. Of course, it's a hog relative to other window managers (like Sawmill) but if you like eye candy, there is no other choice. Pete On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Heredity Choice wrote: > > Been using KDE for about a year ... tried a couple of others, Gnome for > > example,found KDE good in terms of stability / functionality....I > > hear from > > the gnomers that big strides have been made in stability > > so.......it maay also > > now be worth a crack. but if a windows person asks me about using FreeBSD > > for a personal computer KDE is the one I am going to show them > > I had heard that Gnome stability had improved and tried it. After 10 minutes > it crashed. I shall stay with KDE. > > Paul Smith > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message