Re: Reading pdf files
On 16/06/19, Gary Dale (gary@extremeground.com) wrote:
> On 2019-06-15 12:43 p.m., Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > We agree it is uncommon to use both (you go further and claim it is even
> > common to use neither), and we agree it is common to use either one or
> > the other (you go further and claim it is extremely common). :-)
>
> There is a difference between "a lot of people" and common. Gnome and
> KDE/Plasma 5 are common, Cinnamon is widely used. A lot of people use XFCE
> or LXDE.
>
> Gnome and Plasma are common because they run just fine on 90% of the
> hardware out there. Cinnamon doesn't use either but is still based on GTK,
> as is Mate. There are a lot of desktops but most of them are built on either
> Qt or GTK.
I think Jonas may have been enjoying some "logical and/or" humour.
Everyone in our office uses i3. I thought that choice was very common
these days. Certainly the Qt/GTK subsystems still have to be around for
app support.
Rory
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