Re: ...best place to ask questions and to get help?

@Mark,
yes, I agree with you about Enlightenment.
I suppose I'm just not enlightened.
Haven't ever gotten beyond and booting and playing.
Would dearly love to see Xfce4.12 in Gobo.
I will keep waiting and watching.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Mark Filipak <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 03/26/2015 08:05 PM, Hugo Barrocas wrote:
> > Gobo 014.1 used KDE.
> >
> > Gobo 015 now uses Enlightenment :)
>
> Ah! Well, that answers the question in my other posting.
>
> I hope I don't offend anyone because I just want to express how I feel
> about Windowed operating systems.
>
> 1, The best was Windows NT 3.51. It's been steadily downhill since then.
> I'm almost kidding about this ...almost. I was working at Intel as a
> system architect at the time Microsoft invented Active-X as a means to
> bypass the call gate security mechanism to enable kernel drivers to be
> installed directly from user-land. We were horrified and warned
> Microsoft not to do it. That decision led directly to root kits which
> led to root kit viruses. I realize I'm not talking about Linux, but no
> Linux that I've seen has half the functionality of Windows. Sorry, but
> Linux is a hack. That doesn't stop me from using Linux (I'm writing this
> in a Linux Mint+Xfce guest running in VirtualBox inside Windows 7), but
> Linux will never be a well-integrated operating system.
>
> 2, I cannot live with Enlightenment. I've compiled my complaints & a
> wish list:
>
> Enlightenment has no contextual help.
> Instead, I want contextual help available for each window, each dialog.
> And I want the ability to add my own notes to the help dialogs. If an
> application has no contextual help, I want the OS to add a help button
> to the title bar that hoists a contextual help note of my own design.
>
> Rolling over icons provoke pop-ups.
> I find this to be incredibly irritating. I want rollovers to do nothing
> at all.
>
> Applications launch on single-click.
> Instead, I want single-clicks to select, double-clicks to launch. For
> applications that do not behave that way, I want the OS to provide a
> wrapper that enforces my desired behavior.
>
> There are icon bars in lieu of menus.
> Instead, I want menus, only. I don't want icons at all. Also, I want the
> ability to change the text of menu items. Also, I want the ability to
> add my own notes as menu items.
>
> There is no system menu.
> Instead, I want a menu system that has unlimited hierarchical levels. In
> addition to links that launch applications, I want the ability to add links
> that point to local data files and to on-line content that automatically
> opens them when they are double-clicked.
>
> If the process that has the focus is blocked, I want the OS to take
> control of the cursor and display the 'busy' cursor.
>
> I want all applications to be prevented from stealing the focus.
>
> I don't want special effects, transitions, compositing, or whatever you
> call it. I want my OS ugly and brilliant, not pretty and stupid.
>
> Just my thoughts. I know they will be rejected. YMMV.
>
> I really like the concept of GoboLinux. I've been using Linux Mint for a
> few months. As with all Linux flavors, the way files are sprayed across
> the disk drives me postal. I thought of using hardlinks to straighten
> things out, then discovered Gobo has already done it. But it appears
> that Gobo is just trying to be yet another pretty face. I'm looking for
> real improvements in functionality. I run a computer, not a cell phone.
> I'll probably be moving on.
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