#@!$ Red Hat and Fedora anyway

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:49:59 -0600, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> I must be some whiny clueless Windows reject. You "real men" can keep your
> spartan WMs. I want a real desktop. Give me Gnome or KDE any day.
> 
> There, I said it. :-)
> 

Nothing wrong with that approach, Michael. I'm not a purist. It's just
that neither KDE nor GNOME provide anything that I really need. I use
relatively few programs, and most of those occupy a mostly full
desktop, so the desktop icons, etc., don't seem much use, and the
superplentiful menus keep me wading through lots of useless stuff to
find the few functions I really use. With the autohide panel and
taskbars in xfce4 (OMG, that means it's got similar functions to
Windows), everything I need is available at a mouse sweep to top or
bottom of the screen without sacrificing any screen real estate. Now
that I've cleaned up  my hidden files, the latest xfce4 restores my
desktops to the desired status each time I reboot.

And, the best of all possible worlds, I keep the latest KDE and GNOME
installed, so I can get to any KDE and GNOME functions I need with
ease. I must have done something wrong or omitted some crucial step.
xfce4 has a complete set of menus for KDE, but I don't see any GNOME
apps in the menu.

Once you invoke one of the KDE or GNOME beasties, however, you've
bought the farm as far as resources are concerned.

-- 
 Collins