[CS-FSLUG] Senator Obam

[David McGlone]

On Sunday 12 October 2008 2:50:41 am Jon Glass wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:36 AM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> > Why the switch? I've been considering giving gnome another look lately,
> > because I hear so much about how clean cut it is. What I mean by that is
> > sometimes KDE just seems cluttered and everything just strewn about in
> > the Kmenu.
>
> If you really want clean-cut, and want a full de, then you ought to
> give xfce a look-at. I have run it on Xubuntu and Puppy Linux, and
> really like it. Unfortunately for me, at the moment, I'm a but
> enamored by compiz (and its OSX-like "expose" feature) and some of the
> Gnome integration features (I think the "Print preview" function that
> creates a pdf like in X is part of Gnome, right?) to bother with the
> effort of making the switch back to xfce. I sort of wish I had just
> installed xfce to start with on my Wind. I wasn't thinking. But I
> really like the clean-cut look of xfce, and its powerful simplicity.
> If you want a system with the powerful simplicity of OSX, then I think
> that xfce is as close as you'll get. And the more I talk, the more I
> suspect I'll be wasting my afternoon installing xfce here today. ;-)
>
> I'm also partial to icewm. It's not the lightest of windows managers,
> and it may be "ugly", but there are a few themes that just pop! And I
> kind of like how it works. I am also partial to the icewm panel.
>
> I think that KDE tries too hard to do everything--and do it like
> Windows--and OSX, and because of this, it tends to get
> cluttered-feeling. Weirdly, however, it never feels sluggish, despite
> all it does. The downside is that to get it to look truly nice, you
> have to put a lot of effort and extra software into it. Right now, I
> want my system to work out of the box, and Gnome on Ubuntu gave that
> to me. So I'm sort of stuck with it. ;-)

This is sort of my problem. The way I have most things setup on my system with 
config files etc, etc, when I do an upgrade I always choose to format and 
start completely fresh and restoring my config files is a snap instead of 
doing it by hand. I can have a fresh install and complete customized system 
in less than and hour.

I guess my biggest peeve is that there are so many applications installed that 
I will never use and I kinda get ticked knowing that they are taking space 
for nothing, but by removing 1 app I run the risk of accidentally  removing 
my whole system, like I did yesterday when I was looking for an app to use to 
make voice calls from my computer and I was installing and un-installing apps 
left and right. Somehow my system became almost completely crippled luckily 
though I am seasoned enough to use a command line to fix it.


-- 
David M.