1 Dec
2005
1 Dec
'05
9:36 p.m.
Alexey Toptygin wrote:
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
Heh, sure. :-)
I used to be a fan of both fvwm2 and Afterstep. But it is useful sometimes
when desktop apps can interact with each other, I just wish Gnome and KDE
weren't such bloated monstrosities though.
I suspect it's a case of bad design and too many people working on their own
little aspect of the system, rather than there being any grand plan for the
desktop environment as a whole - but in the open source world it's hard to do
a big project to any kind of plan.
I gave up on Gnome a long time ago because it just wouldn't work right in a
networked environment where you might have a Gnome app running from one system
but displayed on another (which of course is one of the main benefits of X) -
KDE at least didn't have the same problems, although it still suffers from the
bloat factor.
<cynical>
Of course in a few years Microsoft will 'invent' Linux. We'll get a consistent
desktop (but still a bad one), and a system that's inherently unstable. But
the Microsoft-buying public will lap it up, thinking how clever Microsoft are
for inventing something that - unbeknown to them - looks oddly like UNIX. :-)
</cynical>
cheers
Jules
Actually, I forgot to mention that I've quite
often had people
recommend I try Debian over Slackware before. You still get the
problem of the Gnome / KDE choice though, I suppose.
There's a lot of window managers out there that don't have the bloat
problems of Gnome and KDE. I like WindowMaker, but you can get
AfterStep, fluxbox, icewm, etc.; there's tons available out of the box
on most distros. The only way to win the "Desktop Envoronment" game is
not to play :-)