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Re: KDE, GNOME, too intrusive for me !! Any alternatives ?



On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:58:50 +0100
Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> spake thus:

> Tried GNOME and found it really unappealing. I find Nautilus really poor 
> and especially unusable regarding file associations.
> 
> Switched back to KDE and really got annoyed by it's meddling with ACPI, 
>   sound and god knows what else (maybe wifi). I like Konqueror (the F4 
> open a shell here trick and the bookmarks and the capability of handling 
> URLs and the easy file associations), I like K3b but that's about it.
> 
> I want a window manager which does only the window manager and then I 
> want to choose the applications I want to do what I want.
> 
> In th past I was using WindoMaker and liked it.
> 
> In your experience the use of WM (as an example) plus some selected KDE 
> or GNOME applications is feasible ? Or would the prerequisites of such 
> applications also be the libraries that pretend to run all of my PC ?
> 
> Hope I have explained myself.
> 
> TIA,
> Bob Alexander

I quite enjoyed using Fluxbox on Debian for a while. Worth a good google
for and very lightweight. Still my prefered desktop on my underpowered
Laptop.

HTH

LukeK
-- 
Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>



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