Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 13:07:22 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE themes Message-ID: <19990930130722.A25604@athena.sea.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9909301927290.46677-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from J McKitrick on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 07:32:22PM %2B0100 References: <19990930132507.C23710@comp04.prc.uic.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9909301927290.46677-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 07:32:22PM +0100, J McKitrick wrote: > Really? What would be another one to check out? Enlightenment is good, > but resource hungry, and i can't make those icons on the right go away. > Windowmaker: well, i just don't get the whole dock concept. Seems too > hard to customize into anything integrated. I thought KDE had the most > promise, IMHO. But then again, i am looking for productivity, not pure > efficiency, so maybe that's the best bet. Any suggestions? > I just like the whole integrated desktop concept, rather than trying to > stitch together a bunch of incompatible cryptic utilities. I mean, hey, > it ma be bloated, but at least it's still Unix. My HD is big enough > anyway, since i'm trashing windows ;-) > > OK, this is a questions list, right? Question: What would be easy to use > in place of KDE? Easy to learn but powerful when i need it? Gnome? > Look into ctwm which is a great advance to the old twm. ctwm gives you any number of ``workspaces'' and it fairly easy to configure. The ctwm mailing list will help you. ctwm has any number of glitzy features for people with time to burn; also plenty of funtionality to let you season-to-taste. Really, it's the working-man's WM. I've tried any number of WM's over the months and keep coming back to ctwm for just one simple reason: it let's me get work done. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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