On Donnerstag 27 August 2009, Frank Peters wrote: > Henry Ford, the great American industrial pioneer, once remarked: > "The best way to solve the problems of the city is to leave the city."
Henry Ford also praised national socialism. > > But this is pure bunk. Using Openbox with a virtual desktop and > the old-fashioned Midnight Commander file manager that runs in an > X terminal, I could probably beat the pants off anyone, in terms of > raw productivity, that is hooked on KDE or Gnome. and I disagree wholeheartly here. KDE offers what openbox never can do: integration. Also: network transparency. > > Do we all understand the ancient idea of iconoclasm? yes, and the iconoclasts were people who destroyed art and knowledge for nothing. Which is a reason why they are still seen as one of the most stupid elements of human history. > > Iconoclasm is the disdain of imagery, because images are entirely > superficial in nature and ultimately will deceive, beguile, and prevent > one from ascertaining the truth. It is no exaggeration to say that KDE > and Gnome (as MS Windows) are based on luxuriant visual methodologies > that can only obscure the true essence of computing. oh so wrong. > > Of course, I realize that very few will accept this argument. More > and more will embrace KDE or Gnome or their ilk as time progresses. > The developers of X Window and even Gentoo will begin to disallow > simpler configurations. Linux will then become a swampland of fantastic > imagery but increasingly difficult computation. you are free to see it that way - and please, complain to the X devs who torture us with hal crap (they are mostly fedora/intel based - so you should complain there). But as someone who has used *box and enlightenment and icewm and other stuff I long forgot: KDE was the first environment where I did not have to adjust all and everything to be able to do stuff. No, instead I was able to spent my time doing stuff. You are satisfied with openbox and mc? Well, I need konqueror and konsole and their working together. I need okular. I love gwenview. And I love the fact that I do not have to learn a whole new set of key-combos and config syntax for every single app I use.
