On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/16/2011 06:19 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> If you want to adapt the DE to your needs (as opposed to adapting >> yourself to a new DE), KDE seems to be the best possible choice. > > The first time I used XFCE after installing it, my desktop looked almost > exactly the same way it had under Gnome 2. My wallpaper was the same, > my panel was where I wanted it, with most of the icons I wanted right > where they'd always been (I'd love to get rid of the Trash icon and Show > Desktop icon, but aside from that, it's almost exactly the same.) and so > on. Almost no learning curve. That's why I recommend it. Can KDE do > the same? I tinkered with xfce this evening on an old laptop running f16 - I actually pretty well like xfce and it is pretty snappy on old hardware too, as well as being pretty configurable - the only initial irritation was that I could not set up scrolling and tapping on the touchpad - but adding stuff to the config file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf got things the way I wanted.... Certainly it was functionally useful and even compared to KDE on that machine which at the present time is pretty sluggish even with the faster kernel-3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16 installed and running - so it was a breath of fresh air trying xfce on that machine - I have no doubt that KDE in f16 on a faster more up to date machine would do what I needed... but there is a choice of DEs which is nice. -- mike c -- 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
