Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/6/13, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf writes: >> > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: >> > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warni

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
> acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is > > apparently unusable with such an X driver. > > > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > > default desktop for the production jessie installer. > > You c

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 02:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:04 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, December 06, 2013 05:04:49 PM Gary Roach wrote: > On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > with acroread (on start): > > (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > module_path:

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:04 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. > I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, > 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid. I like it and > have never liked Gno

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:04:49 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > > > After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to > KDE. I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk > space, 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid. I like > it and have never liked

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: with acroread (on start): (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "xfce", The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. If I try to i

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:57:55 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 08:20:56, Joe wrote: > > > > I had used the fallback mode, but I then wandered off and tried Xfce > > and LXDE, and stayed with the latter. It's a pig to get the Debian > > menu to display on LXDE, if you use that, and I

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 19:40 +, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:54:28 +0100 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I'm sorry, I can't contribute more to this thread, since I already > > pointed everything out. > > > > OK, that's a good one. And it's meant with a ";)". But I really thought it won

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:54:28 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm sorry, I can't contribute more to this thread, since I already > pointed everything out. > OK, that's a good one. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 17:19 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > That does not mean that I am against graphic output. Ralf's sound > samples and my graphs and icons are graphical objects. With you can > have several terminals and copy and paste text among each other. > > What I don't like is the posit

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Brian
On Thu 05 Dec 2013 at 18:24:13 -0500, Bo Lan wrote: > Although I am not sure if XFCE or LXDE is good or bad, I am kind of > agree with your opinion about the usability under such an free X driver. > According to Debian's policy, Debian is an organization that highly > respects completely free soft

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Reco writes: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 11:54 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > > > > > I disagree.

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 11:54 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > > > > > I disagree. My .xse

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > > > I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. > > What DE do you u

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:26 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:23 +0400, Reco wrote: > > I just stay clear of anything that's linked against > > libgconf.so. > > The real issues are caused by libdconf, libgconf is quasi obsolet. I > already must install libdconf for audio producti

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 12:17 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > Very likely that > > > > even GNOME doesn't continue using GTK

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:17:20PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > This are not Xfce, KDE > > > > etc. bugs and they are

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. > > What DE do you use? It's new to me that there aren't those issues > outside GNOME. There's nothing the other DEs

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 11:12:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > This are not Xfce, KDE > > > etc. bugs and they are also not Debian related, this is caused by > > > GTK/GNOME upstream's ignora

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 14:02 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, > > I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. What DE do you use? It's new to me that there aren't those

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread François Patte
Le 06/12/2013 10:52, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 10:35 +0100, François Patte wrote: >> Le 06/12/2013 09:51, Reco a écrit : >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:09:02AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > GTK is a PITA and will always cause similar warnings, I disagree. My .xsession-errors does not contain similar warnings. > but GTK also does > cause really serious issues, if you e.g. launch a GNOME editor with root > privileges, th

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 12:29:14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > Maybe there's a wiki page on the topic? If not, maybe we could start one? > > Or debian-ot@... :) Why off-topic? This is Debian related. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debia

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 dec 13, 08:20:56, Joe wrote: > > I had used the fallback mode, but I then wandered off and tried Xfce > and LXDE, and stayed with the latter. It's a pig to get the Debian menu > to display on LXDE, if you use that, and I don't know if Xfce has the > same trouble. I seem to recall you me

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > >> with acroread (on start): > >> > >> (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in > >> module_path: "xfce", > > > > The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. > > If I try to install t

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 10:35 +0100, François Patte wrote: > Le 06/12/2013 09:51, Reco a écrit : > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > >> It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the > >> choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread François Patte
Le 06/12/2013 09:51, Reco a écrit : > Hi. > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: >> It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the >> choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals and cli to >> launch my stuff, there are a lot of warn

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 12:51 +0400, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > > It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the > > choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals and cli to > > launch my stuff, there are

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:39:03AM +0100, François Patte wrote: > It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the > choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals and cli to > launch my stuff, there are a lot of warnings, for instance: > > when I quit evince:

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread François Patte
parently unusable with such an X driver. > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > default desktop for the production jessie installer. It could a nice choice, but there are many things to fix! I made the choice of xfce at my wheezy install and as I use terminals an

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Joe
On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:13:04 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will > > be my DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not > > that good at the momen

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:07:44 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> I hope Debian will make XFCE the >> default desktop for the production jessie installer. > > It is for the time being. > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.g

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/6/13, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Dec 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing >> Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop "environment" entirely, and just use a >> full-featured window manager and a few utilities. I found Openb

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing > Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop "environment" entirely, and just use a > full-featured window manager and a few utilities. I found Openbox with > LXPanel works just fine. L

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
y unusable with such an X driver. > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > default desktop for the production jessie installer. You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop "environment" entirely

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 18:24 -0500, Bo Lan wrote: > I am still a new user, and don't know if we can report a bug to Debian > to say that, GNOME SHELL or Foo Desktop Environment is not usable under > 2D free video card driver or such. Actually, I hope Debian can patch > those DE, free drivers, and so

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Bo Lan
t; apparently unusable with such an X driver. > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > default desktop for the production jessie installer. > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell > : :' : > `. `'` >`- > >

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 17:13 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will be my > > DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not that good at > > the moment, but

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will be my > DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not that good at > the moment, but since LXDE is similar ok as Xfce is, it might be > interesting to w

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Tom H
> apparently unusable with such an X driver. > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > default desktop for the production jessie installer. It is for the time being. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tasksel/tasksel.git;a=commit;h=dfca406eb694e0ac00ea04b1

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
t; apparently unusable with such an X driver. > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > default desktop for the production jessie installer. All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will be my DE for a while, but I'm already testing R

Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-05 Thread Stephen Powell
Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is apparently unusable with such an X driver. Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE.