On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Austin English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For a maximal dogfood experience, I was looking around >> for a way to use a replacement Windows shell with >> Wine as my desktop environment instead of gnome >> or kde. >> >> So far, all the ones I've found are either broken, hard to use, >> or just plain weird. >> >> I've been working through the list at >> http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Microsoft_Windows/Software/Alternate_Shells/ >> >> http://www.astonshell.com/aston/ - couldn't figure out how to run it? >> >> http://www.emergedesktop.org/ - kind of works, but very minimal, no start >> menu >> >> http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/rob/liteshell.html - works, but >> very minimal, no start menu >> >> http://purels.org - no help, just exits, saying "ha ha, you didn't >> configure me". Obviously not meant for me :-) >> >> http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm - pretty, but no Programs menu?! >> (Maybe that's there but broken, wine bug?) >> >> http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/download.html - ROS explorer - >> prebuilt binary >> there is 3 years out of date, doesn't work too well >> >> Anyone have a favorite I should try? >> - Dan >> >>
I haven't tried these in awhile but they worked decently enough a couple years ago on xp/2000 Blackbox window manager for windows (dont worry desktop icon/system tray plugin is included by default) http://www.bb4win.org/news.php Litestep (highly customzieable, tons of plugins afterStep/NextStep clone) http://www.lsdev.org/doku.php --John
