On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 09:43:26 +0100 KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:21:14PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > > I personally don't see way we should have CDE as a default in Devuan, > given that the large majority of users would surely prefer something > *usable* instead than a DE that was conceived 25 years ago and has not > moved forward that much since then... [snip] > I agree on keeping an eye on GNUStep but, despite I am a WMaker user, > I wouldn't recommend it as a default in Devuan either. I thought we'd decided on Xfce, and I'd thought that we managed to de-xxxxxxx-ize Xfce. Everyone (except me) likes Xfce, why not use it? It's trivial to use, even for somebody who's never seen it before. It's the Nano of the Window Manger/Desktop Environment world. You might not like it, but you can use it long enough to switch over to something else. It's somewhat reasonable about the resources it uses. As far as Windowmaker and Gnustep, if you can get those to serve you in any kind of productive way, you're a better man than I. I find Unity easier to use than those two. Speaking of Unity, Unity proved how many users a distro could blow off just because of its *default and changeable* desktop environment choice. Nobody ever got fired for buying Xfce: I'd stick with the plan. By the way, if somehow in the future Xfce becomes so systemd entangled that we can't use it anymore, we could *at that time and in those circumstances* switch to LXDE, which from the user perspective is a more stable and lighter Xfce that lacks the ability to have multiple panels. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt July 2015 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
