Re: tlug: another question: webpage-like desktop in Linux

[Scott Perlman <perlman@example.com>]

Sorry,

Peronsal problem.  Whenever people tell me how user-friendly a winoddow
manager is, and I can't use it for more than 15 minutes without cursing
I get really frustrated.

I did not mean to imply anything about you, in any way.

I use CTWM by choice, and will use TWM if CTWM is unavailable.  I have
set up my CDE Server to run CTWM on the AIX I have to use at work, and
am far to excitable about this.

(And CTWM does handle MBCS if you have the appropriate fonts)

-Scott

Matt Gushee did state upon Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 02:24:00PM +0900:
> Scott Perlman writes:
>  > Well I'll pedantically correct that:
>  > 
>  > KDE is the most user-friendly (In the opinion of Matt Gushee) free
>  > (using the term loosely) desktop available for X on Linux.
>  > 
>  > I personally can't stand any of the CDE clones and consider them all
>  > non-friendly.  (What you don't want Icons on your desktop? TOUGH, we
>  > can sort them into this one huge area of your screen if you really
>  > don't want them floating, but you WILL have Icons)
> 
> Jeez Louise. In case anybody gives a damn, I don't use KDE myself (I
> like my WindowMaker with a plain black background, thank you). I
> mentioned it because of the web integration thing. I said it was
> user-friendly because it fits what seems to be most people's
> definition of user-friendliness ... easy to set up, supports
> drag-and-drop, has GUI configuration tools ...
> 
> To tell ya the truth, I sometimes wonder about the wisdom of trying to 
> make a Linux desktop that looks like a Win95 clone ... personally I
> find the 'Start menu' really braindead and annoying. But Red Hat and
> the KDE people think users want that, and I have no evidence to
> prove them wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt Gushee
> Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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-- 
It's times like this that I realize today could have been avoided 
entirely had I just not bothered getting up this morning.
Scott perlman@example.com
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