On 09/16/2011 09:30 AM, Charlie Brune wrote: > On 09/15/2011 01:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 09/15/2011 11:03 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >>> I never really tried XFCE to be honest, guess someone else would have to >>> give the verdict on that. >> I use F14. As soon as I learned what Gnome3 was like I did some >> research and ended up with XFCE. Even if they make a version of Gnome3 >> that I don't find horrible I'd never go back. > Agreed. I initially went to XFCE because I didn't like Gnome3. > > My reaction is the same. The desktop settings of XFCE are really easy to > modify and I have it the way I want it. I plan to stay with XFCE as well. > > I haven't tried LXDE, but this thread is making me want to take a look > at that, too. I've worked with both and both are more "Gnome-2-ish". IMHO, I think XFCE starts out being a bit more like Gnome 2, but both can be tweaked fairly easily. By default, LXDE only has one taskbar (at the bottom) and it can get a bit cluttered, but adding a second one at the top and moving things between the taskbars isn't hard. XFCE's default is two taskbars, a full-width one at the top with currently running stuff (workspace switcher, clock, icon bar, etc.) and a short one at the bottom center with shortcuts to often-used tasks on it (terminal, browser, file manager, etc.). I think I'm sticking with XFCE, but switching would be no great hardship. I concur with the general impression of Gnome-3--it appears targeted at tablets and it is a right pain to use in its default configuration on anything that requires a trackpad or mouse. You need serious graphics hardware to make it go at any reasonable speed. Configuring it is certainly no walk in the park and the need to add about ten add-ons to make it tolerable is downright ridiculous. A note to any Gnome developers that may be out there lurking on this list: Change for the sake of change is bloody short sighted. The already incredibly convoluted configuration process of Gnome 2 has grown more complex by an order of magnitude. It is not usable on a laptop with a trackpad. It takes too many resources. You haven't even come close to creating a usable GUI out-of-the-box here and succeeded only in alienating most previous Gnome users. Well done! You should work for the US government or the DMV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - BASIC is the Computer Science version of `Scientific Creationism' - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
