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From: john on 9 Apr 2010 10:36
My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?

John Culleton
From: Auric__ on 9 Apr 2010 10:54
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:36:32 GMT, john(a)wexfordpress.com wrote:

> My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
> of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
> ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?

When I run the GUI, I use XFCE, because I like it. (I do most tasks in plain
old text mode.)

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From: John K. Herreshoff on 9 Apr 2010 10:55
john(a)wexfordpress.com wrote:

> My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
> of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
> ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?
>
> John Culleton

I'm running slack 12.2 on two boxes, and have 13.0 on the other. I did not
like KDE 4.2, so I built 4.3.4 (or one of those versions) and it works OK.
One needs to 'get under the hood' to set up the desktop the way you want
it. I'll probably upgrade all of the machines to slack 13.1 when it comes
out... moving it to this laptop last... I've run KDE for maybe 10
years... Liked it better than Gnome.

John.

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From: Mike Jones on 9 Apr 2010 12:29
Responding to john(a)wexfordpress.com:

> My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
> of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
> ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?
>
> John Culleton


IceWM.

Fast, light, minimal, predictable, exportable, easy for newbies on my LAN
(including easily locking down things they can fiddle with), with no
function loss (that I've ever experienced). I could probably install it
on my kettle, and I have all my apps, custom fastkeys, and custom themes
setup how I like things, in just a few small text config files.

The wifey likes Xfce4, but its a bit bloated and fiddly for my taste. ;)

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From: Danno on 9 Apr 2010 14:00
john(a)wexfordpress.com wrote:

> My reaction to KDE4 was so negative that after a decade or more of use
> of KDE I switched to XFCE. But others obviously have other views. So I
> ask the general question, what GUI do you currently run? And why?
>
> John Culleton

Same situation as you. Still on 12.2 on my main (this) box w/KDE3, but
have 13.0 on others, and KDE4 got flushed after a single day of use. XFCE
is nice, I've used blackbox on lesser harwdare in the past, liked it as
well. I really like Konqueror, but Thunar has come a long way since I last
used it. KDE4.x has just become a big, slow monster that I can't be
bothered to tame.


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