From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 28 13:59:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hunden.levonline.com (tistel.levonline.com [193.15.191.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8E837B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik@speechcraft.com) Received: from palpatine (t4o74p42.telia.com [62.20.225.162]) (authenticated) by hunden.levonline.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4SKxJ514403; Mon, 28 May 2001 22:59:19 +0200 Message-ID: <001301c0e7b9$9771fd90$2d0101c0@headquarters.local> From: "Fredrik Olausson" To: "Chris Moline" , References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:03:04 +0200 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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- > IMO, BSD/Linux don't have a cool desktop because no one has written one > yet. But I think we will get there yet. While I like CDE in a sort of nostalgic way (thinking back to the days at school...) I must say that KDE 2 is really getting places! I built it on my Slackware box some weeks ago, and it is very good indeed. The graphics are well done - not too much, but just enough - it is rather stable and all-in-all a very nice environment to work in. I just got it precompiled for FreeBSD the other day, so I'm going to install it on the big box soon :) I used to be (well... "am") a die-hard fvwm fan, but KDE feels like a good-looking windows desktop now - it feels like a desktop you just sit down at to do some work. I think "natural" is the word I'm looking for here. -Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message