Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:19:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On 02/27/08 12:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I"m really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort
> > > > > of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista
> > > > > look, these are nice as well...
> > > > >
> > > > > But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T1120, 72 Gig HD, 1Gig RAM)
> > > > > no video card in, I'm doing ssh to it then startkde... I would like to
> > > > > have something nicer... It's already a nice looking screen, but if I
> > > > > could get something nicer...it would be better.....
> > > > >
> > > > > Any Suggestion ?
> > > > By "nice", you mean "lots of resource-using, functionally-useless
> > > > eye candy"?
> > > Or do you mean "fully configurable, lean, very functional" like fvwm?
> > Nah.  Since he mentions XGL, he's looking for eye candy.
>
> Have both?
>
> http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/
>
> I don't think it's in Debian, though.

Interesting. Thanks.

Hugo