Re: KDE Question
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:33:09 -0300
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Celejar wrote:
> > Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching
> > users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system.
> > The xscreensaver author has a low opinion of gnome-screensaver:
> >
> > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver
> > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
> >
> > But I have no idea how serious his concerns are, and whether they are
> > uptodate for current gnome-screensaver.
>
> I am not sure about the gnome screensaver, but he is spot on about
> bells-and-whistles-focused unsafe dekstop environment crap being a security
> hazard, and it DOES apply to KDE4's screensaver.
...
Thanks for the clarification.
...
> > Not a threadjack - I was just curious about the advantages of other
> > DE's out there, and wondering what I'm missing ...
>
> There is something to be said about stuff that puts functionality over form.
> XFCE is likely to be more stable and safer than anything KDE or Gnome.
As other posts in this and other threads have said, XFCE just works and
stays out of the way, AFAICT, although I'm not the most sophisticated
user.
Celejar
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