From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 18:16:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2509216A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:16:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from vsmtp1.tin.it (vsmtp1.tin.it [212.216.176.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1109743FCB for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:16:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it) Received: from workstation (212.171.174.123) by vsmtp1.tin.it (7.0.019) id 3F98F900007351D8 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 03:16:01 +0100 Message-ID: <000a01c3a59e$429ce460$7baeabd4@workstation> From: ".VWV." To: Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 03:16:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: the unix desktop was possible once X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 02:16:04 -0000 I have understood very well what that manager of Red Hat was trying to explain. At the time of KDE 2.x and GNOME 1.x, using Windowamker as desktop, it was possible to tune KDE to 'kdestep' style, and GNOME to 'gtkstep', obtaining a similar look for all the graphical applications. Now it is a complete chaos. If those people was working under a hierarchical organization like the FreeBSD one, open-source unix could quite destroy Microsoft. Unfortunately, a lot of people prefer to waste time on endless graphical developments, instead of consolidating their platforms. The most part of the ports' links for this purpose are still broken, I can understand the lack of FreeBSD support for them. I have found a lot of sources with the only help of Google. If I wasn't completely alone here, I had tried to pack the desktop described above on a FreeBSD for end-users. I'm very disenchanted now, even if my own workstations will look as a masterpiece of graphics for the entire life of their hardware - wine enclosed -. At least the entire command-line system seems perfect, unlike other unix variants. As always, forgive me for I'm temporarily writing from the Disgusting Operating System. I'm on Amnesiac 4.6.2, which also boots this shit. VITTORI