"Michael D. Setzer II via users" wrote: > (An AI overview of many desktop environments.)
Fedora doesn't NEED a "desktop". Most of my machines don't run one at all. I use SSH to manage them. I run a DE (KDE) on my primary machine solely for convenience. I initially choose it because (at the time, anyway) it was the only DE that allowed me to suppress all the icons and stick with English words for menu items. If that ever goes away, I'll be switching to another DE or reverting to a simple window manager. I abandoned Firefox for quite a while after they dropped the ability to use names instead of icons. I'm still not happy about that change. LibreOffice still allows using words but makes it irritatingly difficult to apply the change globally. I NEVER start a machine with a graphical boot or login. I want to SEE what happens. Even though I can't read fast enough for most of what happens, I can still see patterns. I use startx (or startw) when I need them. I do understand some of the motivation for icons. Internationalization. Saving space and standarding the size of items. But solutions are possible for those issues and ought to be available to people who learned how to read and have trouble deciphering some of the weird pictures which seem to be different every place they are used. (And how many users today remember what the picture of a floppy disk or a file folder represent?) If KDE drops X11, I'll be forced to find a different DE. I agree that Wayland has improved but it still doesn't work as well or as cleanly as X11. It's overkill for running an Xterm against a remote system. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA "Stupidity is a competitive sport. [email protected], +1 714 434 7359 Records were made to be broken." [email protected] -- Bill Swan -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
