On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:21:29 -0400
Robert Myers wrote:
> Then they see how real nerds handle the problems and they think,
> "U, maybe Windows isn't so bad, after all."
I think of it as playing a complicated puzzle solving
computer game :-).
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:07 PM, stan wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:38:01 -0400
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>> See:
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/degnome.html
>>
>> The link in there points to:
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/sample-fvwm.tar.bz2
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:38:01 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> See:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/degnome.html
>
> The link in there points to:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/sample-fvwm.tar.bz2
Thank you Tom.
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:37:20 -0700
John Wendel wrote:
> I also would like to see your custom config files.
OK, my computer picked the middle of this thread to die,
but I have done a brain transplant and have it back
now (more or less).
I've added a link in my de-gnomeing web page to a
tarball wi
On 08/30/2011 09:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
>> Does a linux user really care for a Trash can?
> Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely
> cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards.
>
> Personally I use the simple window man
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:47:19 -0500 Tom Horsley
wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
> > Does a linux user really care for a Trash can?
>
> Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely
> cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards.
>
> Personally I use th
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:47:19 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:
> Personally I use the simple window manager FVWM, and I use
> it with my own, built from scratch, .fvwmrc file that doesn't
> get changed out from under me in every release.
Would you be willing to post that configuration file? Or at least
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Does a linux user really care for a Trash can?
Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely
cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards.
Personally I use the simple window manager FVWM, and I use
it with my own, built from scratch
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:13:01 -0500 Fernando Cassia
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 20:34, Peter G. wrote:
> > the most evolved being xfde and lxde.
>
> XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment. LXDE on the contrary
> is user-hostile when you attempt to customize it. I've recently tried
>
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:08 PM, David L. Gehrt wrote:
> What this seems to imply is that in the future the mainline Linux UI will be
> characterized features imposed, and by lack of flexibility. This lack of
> flexibility means that users are presented with a computing environment with
> fe
XFCE :))
sorry for the typo...
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:34, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 10:13 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment.
>
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On 30 August 2011 06:34, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 10:13 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment.
>
> I'm not sure I've ever heard of it. Are you sure you don't mean XFCE?
I thought we were talking about XPDE: http://kylixapps.narod.ru/
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On 08/29/2011 10:13 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of it. Are you sure you don't mean XFCE?
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 20:34, Peter G. wrote:
> the most evolved being xfde and lxde.
XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment. LXDE on the contrary
is user-hostile when you attempt to customize it. I've recently tried
changing from XFDE to LXDE due to alleged lower memory footprint and
fo
Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Google is the best example... they
> change features, move user interface elements around without any
> questions to the users, and remove features just because they can.
And what is most frustrating is that there is no way to talk to them. Any
effort
at assistance or in
David L. Gehrt wrote:
> I am a long time user of... RedHat, Fedora
me2
> I am of the opinion that Linux may be at or close
> to a crossroad moving from a computing genre in which the users
> and
> developers make cooperative decisions on alternative development paths
> to
> one i
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 17:43, Robert Myers wrote:
> There is absolutely nothing new in any of your complaints. Hardware
> and software developers have been arbitrarily imposing inexplicable
> and often incomprehensible changes on users for as long as I have been
> using computers, which is a ver
On 29 August 2011 21:08, David L. Gehrt wrote:
> For me it is not just that the Gnome2 environment is being replaced with a
> new version, it is that this new version, Gnome3, was seemingly developed
> without much consideration of how the former version, Gnome2, was being used
> and then im
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:08 PM, David L. Gehrt wrote:
> These are a few thoughts that have been fermenting in my mind, but I view
> this email as only a possible set of discussion topics. Anyway, I feel
> better having said this.
>
> I am a long time user of UNIX/Linux distribution
These are a few thoughts that have been fermenting in my mind, but I view
this email as only a possible set of discussion topics. Anyway, I feel
better having said this.
I am a long time user of UNIX/Linux distributions: Slackware, RedHat,
Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu. I am of the opi
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