Re: I PLEASE A NEW GOBOLINU-RELEASE!
Viola Zoltán <[email protected]>
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I like the idea, thought of KISS: "Keep it simple, stupid"! As I hear, the Debian will assembly to the it's releases NOT KDE or Gnome, but XFCE. Okay, I know, the SithWM is a little bit overstatement of the KISS-idea, (yes, I am very idiotic/crazy...), but I think, the XFCE or the LXDE are good for the next GoboRelease. Or, maybe the NoWM?!( https://github.com/patrickhaller/no-wm ) Zoli 2013/3/22 Liam Proven <[email protected]> > On 22 March 2013 21:40, Martín Cigorraga <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Viola Zoltán <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> First, I make it with SithWM, this is easy, SithWM has almost nothing > >> dependencies. After SithWM maybe XFCE. But KDE and Gnome - not, I have > >> nothing interest to this 2 bloatware. > > > > Bloatware!? Jesus... > > This is not a very unusual point of view. GNOME 3 is widely unpopular > and Ubuntu's take on it, Unity, which is based on Gtk3 & GNOME 3 > libraries but resembles Mac OS X, is also not widely admired. It has > alienated people to the extent that the dead GNOME 2 project has been > revived and forked, under the name Maté: > http://mate-desktop.org/ > > GNOME 3 has also been modified to create the more traditional, > Windows-like Cinnamon desktop from Linux Mint: > http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ > > KDE 4, meanwhile, alienated a lot of people. (Myself included - I did > not like KDE releases 2 or 3, but I could use them; KDE 4 is a mess of > redundant options, but cannot do simple things like a working > Windows-style vertical taskbar and the irritating "plasma" widgets are > integral and cannot be turned off. (Even Windows 7 allows you to do > this, and indeed, in recent sub-versions, they're off by default.) > > KDE 3 too was forked: > http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ > > For now, I use Unity, but I each successive release grows more > annoying. I am considering a switch myself. > > So, yes, I think it is fair to say that people don't like them and > they are not very popular, partly due to size and complexity. > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile > Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven > MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven > Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users