Opinions on the "enlightenment" window manager

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Well, Konq is one reason I left KDE.  Konq as a browser is useless - it 
can't handle most of the pages I visit (and they aren't browser specific 
either).  However, Mozilla can handle those same pages without a problem at 
all.  It got so I would open in Konq, close Konq because it couldn't handle 
the page, open Mozilla and it would work.  My frustration is from the fact 
I like many of Konq's features but it's broken.  When it was reported (by 
many of us) we got the standard KDE response to all bugs - "It is fixed in 
the version we are working on (KDE 3 at the time) so we aren't going to 
waste time fixing it in the version everyone is using".  At that time KDE 3 
was almost a year away - like what was I supposed to do - work with a 
broken browser!  No way.   I now use Mozilla.  All I have to do is figure 
out how to get KDE to open Mozilla instead of Konq when I click on a link 
and make it work (I've tried the control center route but I get a "can't 
open temp file ...." error.   No fix for that one either.

KDE is nice from the standpoint that it's a package but if all they are 
working on is the next release (now 3.1 probably <G>) and leave us to work 
with broken stuff I don't need it.  Maybe they worked on KDE and it lost 
some weight in 3.0 <G>.  Unfortunately, it seems too many people are 
getting tied up in the "got to add everything" syndrome.  One app that was 
recommended to me requires I install a bunch of gnome stuff just because 
the author wanted to do something with the GUI.  I don'e run Gnome, don't 
want to and don't want to clutter up my system with it just so an app can 
give me pretty windows that could have been done without it.

I am going to xfce because it's simple and I can add what I need as I need 
it. 

What's gentoo?

Collins wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:31:54 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
> 
> Actually, I'm primarily an xfce fan, but I decided to give kde3 a
> spin.  Bloatware it is, but it's pretty high quality bloatware.  Much
> peppier than the older releases.  Konqueror is an excellent browser;
> Kmail is tolerable.  I still prefer Mozilla (or Galeon) and Sylpheed.
> 
> Fortunately, I'm running a gentoo system, so I don't have to worry
> about the installation crap - just fire it up and stand back for about
> 5 hours.  If you have a midrange PC (800Mz - 256M), kde3 is a
> reasonable solution.  I could see kde3 appealing to a lot of folks who
> aren't linux heavyweights.
> 
> For the tinkerers among us, nothing will replaced the stripped-down
> desktops like xfce or blackbox.
> 
> 

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