Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE
On Friday, December 06, 2013 05:04:49 PM Gary Roach wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote:
> >>>> with acroread (on start):
> >>>>
> >>>> (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> >>>> module_path: "xfce",
> >>>
> >>> The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package.
> >>
> >> If I try to install this package (i386), I get:
> > What's normal. gtk2-engines-xfce doesn't contain Multi-Arch stanza in
> > it's description. Hence - you cannot install more than one architecture
> > of this package at the same time.
> >
> > Please note that I wrote 'libraries from the package', not the package.
> >
> > Quick and dirty way to fix the issue is to download gtk2-engines-xfce,
> > then invoke (as root):
> >
> > dpkg -x gtk2-engines-xfce_3.0.1-2_amd64.deb /usr/local/
> > mv /usr/local/usr/* /usr/local
> > rm -rf /usr/local/usr
> >
> > This setup WILL break once Jessie's gtk2-engines-xfce package will be
> > updated.
> >
> > Probably (I can not test it right now) more-or-less correct way to fix
> > the issue is to launch acroread with GTK theme that does not require xfce
> > engine (for example):
> >
> > GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc acroread
> >
> > Reco
>
> After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE.
> I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space,
> 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its solid. I like it and
> have never liked Gnome. Am I missing something here?
>
> Gary R.
I've never used gnome; I've never liked it. I started using KDE back around
2003/2004. I used it until it became unusable (sometime after 4.0 was released
and 3.x was abandoned).
Konqueror is no longer the most standards-compliant browser available; it mis-
renders things, breaks, and crashes. Kmail can only launch konqueror (that
I've found). KDE has become a bloated pig of a suite that slowed down my quad
Phenom-II.
I switched to XFCE. Even though it isn't perfect and doesn't do everything I
want, it otherwise works well and works efficiently, and generally stays out
of my way.
I have 16GiB RAM, 4 CPUs and 3+TiB disk space on my desktop. I have better
things to spend CPU cycles on than eye candy, than a DE that wipes my butt
when I'm done.
Mechanics, machinists, cooks, bakers and woodworkers don't have fu-fu tools
that make them feel good. They have tools that get the job done. Without
breaking. Sometimes stressed well beyond their nominal limits. Computer users
deserve the same.
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