Re: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?
Le sextidi 26 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> There are several descendants of program "xeyes" around.
Including xeyes itself; any half-decent window-manager should be able to
swallow an arbitrary window and turn it into an applet.
> As for desktops: Two months ago i tried Gnome (eeek !) and
> XFCE (moan). Then i went back to fvwm2, which is terribly
> unconfigured when installed from Debian package.
> But i could take my 15 year old ~/.fvwm2rc file, change a
> few absolute paths in it and got exactly the look-and-feel
> that i am used to from my previous three computers.
>
> The ideal window manager for people who are not flexible enough
> for a new desktop every other year.
Hear, hear!
But it seems ill-loved by Debian maintainers: it still suggests fvwm-themes,
which has completely disappeared from the repositories several releases ago.
There is fvwm-crystal, but it is a monster built on top of Fvwm.
It is sad, even: just shipping a 200-lines example config with a few visual
enhancements over the default config is enough to make it look good. Without
that, unknowing users are scared away before realizing they do not really
need these huge desktop environments.
The same goes for zsh, in fact. The default config is awful, with not even
the current directory in the prompt, but with just a few options it becomes
immensely more comfortable than bash.
I wonder if the maintainers would be amenable to proposed default config
files enhancements.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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