21 Feb
2007
21 Feb
'07
3:23 p.m.
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:03:15PM -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
On 2/21/07, Dave Phillips
<dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
WTF??
I can't stand either Gnome or KDE. I would never willingly use either. I love my ion3
setup. There are dozens of other really good window managers too, like larswm, icewm,
ratpoison, etc.
And for flashy/GUI stuff, I'm told that Beryl rocks/rules/owns/etc., so there will be
plenty of innovative new stuff for Linux users who like their GUI's all gooey. Perhaps
it's good news for all camps if Gnome/KDE die off.
For audio work, I view both Gnome and KDE as irrelevant. I have seen some gorgeous
screenshots of Ardour runnign under Beryl but it's really not my kind of work
environment.
Sure the QT and libglib wiget sets are great, and I'm glad that audio apps use them,
and I expect they'll continue to be maintained and extended, but the *desktop* is in
my view completely tangential to that.
I can't imagine Linux Audio's fate being tied to any particular windowmanager or
desktop. It seems absurd.
- -ken
I apologize for writing something that reads like
a selfish whine (my
estimation), I really didn't mean it to come off like that. I'm not
dependent upon the magazine, I'm sure the decision was made for
perfectly legitimate reasons, and I can look elsewhere for funding.
Sorry, I'll say on the outset that I'm not too smart sometimes. It
seems to me that this conversation started with, "Gnome and KDE are
dying, and thus Linux along with it." And now we are to, "Linux audio
is dying." This isn't a snipe at anyone, but a genuine question - why -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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