On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:58 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Rich. The picture is getting clearer and other than getting my > >> backup SSD installation up to date it's good to know there's no > >> difficult requirements for me to deal with at this time. Being that I > >> have been (for the last 5-6 years anyway) a 'stable' Gentoo user it's > >> to my advantage if things stay basically the same over time. > >> > >> After your and Canek's responses it's clear that within my framework I > >> won't be moving to eudev or mdev. The only systemd question I might > >> need to answer going forward is for my dad's machine. He's got 15 > >> years of email traffic in Evolution and I've not investigated running > >> Evolution in any desktop environment other than Gnome. There's no way > >> at this point to move him away from Evolution so I just need to figure > >> out over time (the next year maybe) how to best deal with that. > > > > Please don't top post. > > > > Sorry. I seldom do that and don't know why I did that time. > > > I've been using Evolution for more than 10 years, always with GNOME, > > but I'm pretty sure you can run it in every other DE. > > > > Probably true. The bar I need to hurdle, probably not much of a jump, > would be getting any new DE to simply look enough like what he > currently has in Gnome 2. I suspect that XFCE with identical wallpaper > and a little thought about placing the right app-start icons on the > desktop would be enough to give me 'plausible deniability' about > whatever changes I actually made under the hood. > > Leaving out the issue of password changes I hope few folks have to > deal with the phone call where, after 10 years of no changes, a loved > one calls you and asks "What is this screen that is asking for my User > Name and Password want me to do? I don't remember..." I am so thankful > for both the remote administration capabilities of Linux and the > security model/lack of viruses. I cannot imagine how painful my life > would be today if he was still using Windows living 350 miles away. > > Cheers, > Mark >
I'm currently running Evolution on KDE 4.x so it will work fine with other DE then Gnome. Choice is the spice of life. B
