On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:47:19 -0500 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500 > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Does a linux user really care for a Trash can? > > Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely > cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards. > > Personally I use the simple window manager FVWM, and I use > it with my own, built from scratch, .fvwmrc file that doesn't > get changed out from under me in every release. > > However, on each new release, I am constantly panting around > after gnome trying to discover what new daemons gnome programs > rely upon so I can start them in my .xsession file. > > (The gnome developers appear to have the philosophy: > "never call a subroutine when dbus communication with a > separate daemon can be substituted, and never start a daemon > on demand when it can be running 24/7 instead even if > you only need it once a week." :-). Hi Tom, I salute you for your perseverance in sticking to FVWM. I did so, too but finally gave up in 2007 in favor of XFCE. In late 2009, I switched to LXDE. I gave up simply because it became increasingly difficult, but not impossible perhaps, to keep track of these new daemons. And I am not a particularly sophisticated user, wanting my computer to actually keep resources available in order to work for me:-) Also, I wanted to popularize linux amongst my students, and it does not make any sense to have them do something so totally different from what I was doing. Unless someone gives you a hand-me-down fvwm, it can be quite forbidding. Also, most people will not change a thing, because the simple act of doing something new is forbidding to them, so burned are they by their Windoze experience. I have found both XFCE and LXDE to be fairly adequate for my needs. LXDE is particular is more configurable, just as like fvwm. Sometimes, I program some additional things I want, other times I get them from looking around. (This mailing list has been incredibly helpful to me, also.) Personally, I think the "base" of any distribution should be low-resources and functional. LXDE may perhaps have been a far more evolved product if some distribution had adopted it as its default. I look forward to a distribution which has good number of packages, etc in the repos, but also has a low-resource philosophy. Best wishes, Ranjan Best wishes, Ranjan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
