On Mon, 12/28/15, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Proposals for an xfce-desktop-lite To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Monday, December 28, 2015, 2:04 PM On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:49:04 -0500
Mitt Green <mitt_gr...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > golinux wrote: > > >I specifically asked what should be REMOVED from the default xfce > >desktop > > Nothing. Xfce even lack necessary components like pdf viewer and a > file archiver (xarchiver is not their project right? They had squeeze > back then but it's no longer maintained now). This is something I never understood. Why expect your window manager/desktop environment to give you functionalities? Why not install them a-la-carte to get the exact system you want? As a matter of fact, putting functionalities in the wm/de makes it more likely they'll get entangled with irrelevant stuff like dbus, PulseAudio, and systemd. I mean, if your wm/de already uses this stuff, why not incorporate it in your functionality in some silly way, perhaps to gain a feature nobody even wanted. I'm a fan of a-la-carte myself. SteveT -------------------------------------------- Me too! A few years ago, I built up a minimal Debian wheezy xfce desktop. Then I discovered fsmithred's Refracta which seemed to have read my mind about what apps to include. The bloat of the alpha2 install was a bit of a shock after being so spoiled by Refracta's minimalism! I was hoping to just do a upgrade from alpha2to the beta but I think I'm going to have to reinstall to get rid of some of the cruft that was pulled in by a full-out xfce install. golinux _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
