Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:17:38 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> Cc: FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots... Message-ID: <20070312141359.L64603@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20070312084623.34143e10@localhost> References: <200703111301.55172.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <45F438DC.8050508@fastmail.fm> <45F46A6A.7070400@hdk5.net> <20070312110943.E43617@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20070312062419.64896959@localhost> <20070312132401.T58112@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20070312084623.34143e10@localhost>
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> > Check out this URL for starters: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html A "desktop environment" can mean anything ranging from a simple window manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as KDE or GNOME. "can mean" is very far from definition. further reading shows that desktop is "where data and applications can be placed". i always though that data and application are on disk. still no definition of desktop, but looks like desktop=ability to display icon symbols of files and programs (which are files too) and ability to provide "panel" for starting programs and doing some other maintenance. do i say right?
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