On 2009-07-29 00:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: [snip]When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the desktop environment.But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks widely useful.Why are you equating a desktop environment with a GUI? I don't use a DE -- no gnome, KDE, gdm, kdm, wdm, xfce, or what have you. I use something far more flexible and and configurable than those underpowered environments;and I certainly am not doing without a graphical env.
You're right. GNOME & KDE have been dominant so long that I forgot about older WMs.
Is there a way in fvwm to have a panel/dock with applets (weather, volume, date/time and "window list" are really useful to me) and have look like Windows 2000 (aka Crux theme and borders, and GNOME-like icons)?
GNOME really is too bulky and pretty dumbed-down, but they've done IMNSHO a good job of making an easily-configured panel and a "smooth" system that lets me customize it enough so that what I need is there, in colors and icon styles that are "obvious but not jarring". If that makes any sense.
And, of course, GTK-based apps integrate very well. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer