Re: KDE, GNOME, too intrusive for me !! Any alternatives ?
I use IceWM (http://www.icewm.org or apt-get install icewm) on an IBM
laptop with a P-150 MMX CPU, 80 MB of RAM, and a 2.1 GB hard disk
drive.
I can run Gnome or KDE apps with it. I, personally, have only run
select Gnome applications so I don't know how painful it is to run KDE
apps.
Like others have mentioned, just pay attention to what the
dependencies are through apt-get or whatever and you should be fine.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:58:50 +0100, Bob Alexander <REMOVED> wrote:
> 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
>
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