Re: FW: OT : GUI Interfaces
On Thursday 12 April 2001 07:44, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:05:21PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht
(jlambrec@landis.be) wrote:
> > hmmm, i don't think you're missing anything, X does indeed
> > provide a graphicall shell to run a gui on, i'll have to rephrase
> > my question to, does anyone know a GOOD desktop that doesn't
> > weigh a TON on an older system. Or more precisely, an environment
> > where you don't have to manually configure your menu's, that's a
> > plus in the windows os desktop you know
> >
> > maybe i just need a good read on X and gui's ? any resource would
> > be welcome ...
>
> Debian configures most menus for you.
Unless you forgot to (didn't) install menu.
> WindowMaker, my preference. Gratuitous screenshots at
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Images/Desktop/ It's running very
> happily on my PPro 180MHz/256MB system (at 96MB until November
> 2000).
>
> Other good middlin' options include BlackBox, SawFish (formerly
> SawMill). Purists often tend toward fvwm2.
You missed my favorite icewm (in 3 flavors - -gnome -lite). The most
Windows-like wm (not counting KDE's).
Which brings me to my favorite lite-wm peeve. Why do most of them
lack a persistent menu/taskbar? Take Blackbox (a favorite from the
posts I have read). To open a new app you have to click at the
desktop (or is there some abstruse keyboard shortcut?) to bring up
the app-ropriate menu The problem: how do you click at the desktop
when you have a maximized app filling the screen? Ditto for
WindowMaker (though I have found out there's a keyboard shortcut).
Here's one problem the Windows folks have solved pretty well. A
menu/taskbar that lets you launch apps and Amazon through them.
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