[Gllug] Gnome Vs Kde Vs

[Matthew King]

Nix wrote:
> I wish! Alas, they're not giving people any freedom in the area of user
> interfaces: oh no, anything that looks like an option must be torn
> out and left partially undocumented in a GConf setting, otherwise it
> might `confuse the users'.
> 
> I used to be a major GNOME fan, but they've gone so lowest-common-
> denominator that I now think they're effectively unusable by anyone who
> wants a user environment that adapts to *them* rather than vice versa.

I feel the same. I don't even remember what was removed now, but it was 
when Galeon went from Gtk 1 to 2 that I started to lose faith in Gnome.

I've found that a good solution, simple as it may sound, is to replace 
metacity with fvwm (see http://www.fvwm.org/documentation/faq/#2.8) and 
then start getting rid of the more irritating Gnome app[let]s.

I did this myself yesterday (having moved from pure fvwm to Gnome a long 
time ago) and it is *very* nice.

Bear in mind that fvwm takes a lot of configuration and (unfortunately? 
Not.) there's no GUI with which to do so, so you'll have to write your 
~/.fvwm2rc yourself. I have a more-or-less working one if anyone wants it.

Well, OK it doesn't really solve the 
Gnome-is-designed-for-people-that-can't-use-MacOS problem, but it's 
still quite funky and I thought I'd let people know all the same.

Matthew

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