On 09/26/2011 11:11 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > This morning I decided to try the various desktop environments available > to me, just to see how I react to each. Now nothing I am going to say is > designed to knock any particular environment. By now everyone knows I > have a number of complaints about Gnome 3. > > So this morning I tried to get around in LXDE and KDE. I found I quickly > got lost in both. In LXDE I could not get LXTerm (I think that its name) > to be anything but transparent, rather than black letters on a white > background. I could never get any of the Background Images displayed in > the Background program to actually appear as backgrounds. I managed to > put Xterm in the Application menu but I could not get it as an option > in a panel. The way to shut down was fairly well hidden. > > In KDE I also had problems. I could not find a way to get a Home > filesystem displayed so I could find a file I wanted to edit. I could > not get Rhythmbox to play . I had to use KsCD. Just now I found the > FileManagwer so scratch that problem. Once I found the FileManager I > found how to eject the Disk. A process that had eluded me for awhile. > Logging out and shutting down under Leave is as cute as the Gnome having > those options under the user name (+ Alt key), and equally obscure for > the first time user. > > My point is all these DEs have things you can do which are hard to find > for the first time user. I may admit that Gnome 3 may be the most > obscure but not by much. In each case, some time must be spent initially > to figure out how to do things. Until the bugs that break Gnome shell are fixed for me (alt-tab crashes it), I'm using XFCE. It works really well. -- -- Steve -- 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
