On Mon Apr03'23 09:24:57PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 21:24:57 -0400 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: GNOME interface is too bulky > > On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:39:25 +0930 > Tim via users wrote: > > > Icons, icons, icons! I can't find a damn thing by icons. > > Yes! A stop sign and an envelope are pretty much it for icons that > make some sense, after those two it is all guesswork (and I wonder how > the envelope will age with no one sending physical letters > any longer :-). > > Personally, I use the FVWM window manager and my own custom .fvwmrc > file which doesn't completely change my interface every six months. Wow, I used to use twm for a while, pre-Fedora, and then fvwm2, and then went to xfce briefly before pekwm and then settling on openbox. I make my own remix, and my wife who used to make fun of my desktop environment (shunya/zero) eventually adopted it, and does not want to go back. She went kde -> xfce -> lxde -> openbox. (She still makes fun of it though.) There is something to be said for stability and backwards compatibility, which seems to be missing from at least a few modern software -- I was long ago given to understand that achieving 1.0 in a software version meant that backwards compatibility would be maintained in the future, however this does not seem to be the case anymore. Unfortunately, I have read that openbox and other such window managers will stop working as wayland progresses without more development. I hope that is too long into the future. Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
