actually while i use and like WindowMaker i think that the look and feel of win9x is the best thing that M$ ever did. Which may not be saying much but still the L&F is alot better than the underlyeing crap that they write. Like i said i use WM and like it but the problems of windows does not really include the user interface (exempt that it is so unconfigerable etc)
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 10:12:10PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I came from MS Windows to Linux a few months ago. I was tired of crashes and > all that, and I had the feeling I could do better GUI-wise also. > > After a while I found Windowmaker, and set up a desktop with several handy > dock > apps. A refreshingly approach to a personal desktop environment. Also, > Windowmaker looks good! So different from MS, and yet very easy to configure > and use. > > Then I see that the big hype these days is KDE and Gnome. I have tried them > both and felt I was taking one step back towards what I left. I just do not > undetstand why the Linux community are working against a wm "standard" that is > not based on what seems truly unique and well layed out: The nextish look. > Instead I am again presented with the taskbar and popup menus that hasn't > really changed for years. Is this to conquer new users, or is it becuase Linux > users "secretly" have missed the look and feel of MS Windows? > > And in Debian Windowmaker is presented as: "Yet another Windowmanager" when it > is actually GNOME and KDE that to me feels and looks like "yet another..." > > > > ----------------------------------- > Regards, > Christian Dysthe > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe > ICQ 3945810 > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux > ----------------------------------- > > > "Clones are people two" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. -- Jack Handey
