19 Sep
2011
19 Sep
'11
4 a.m.
On 16/09/11 04:06, fred wrote:
Le 15/09/2011 21:03, david a écrit :
Some like their eye candy, and luckily for them some are willing to provide it.
But Linux offers choices - XFCE and others are there for those of us who prefer
that way of working.
And it looks to me like GNOME is trying to cater for the touch-screen side of
things ... a phone or small tablet certainly needs an interface that can be used
efficiently without a keyboard, on a small screen and with a finger as the only
pointer. That would take a lot of customising, and a lot of work by the user, in
XFCE or any other keyboard-oriented desktop environment.
Simon
My existing musicbox (running an older versin of
ArtistX) uses LXDE. My server
(running Aptosid) uses XFCE. My personal laptop is still running KDE3. I've
noticed that a number of KDE4 and GNOME3 have become quite hefty, and music
distros seem to be dropping them.
Maybe, hum, Linux is a reflect of the society we are living in : more and more
for the eye candy, less to peoples' needs ?