Graphics apps, kde stuff

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, February 24, 2013 2:17 pm, lukefromdc at hushmail.com wrote:
> No icons on the desktop is a deal-breaker for a lot of people. GNOME tried
> to do that, and was quickly
> forced to bring back that option. An empty default desktop is one thing,
> but not being able to use it would
> make what I do much more difficult.

I can accept your judgment and experience on that even if I don't agree :)
I personally find desktop icons less than useful as they tend to be hidden
by whatever app I happen to be using. But that is just my personal
experience. There was a time I thought of them as must haves, or at least
nice to have.

> I have heard things like "fat pig" used to describe KDE, but even
> ultralight environments can be set up to
> run the file manager and have icons on the desktop. One of the lightest
> there is, although development
> is minimal these days, is Icewm. By default it is just a taskbar, tray,
> and window manager, but you can put
> anything you want in the startup scripts.

DBUS seems to be one of those things we need to have. Not hard to add
though, I have managed to have a working dbus on just VTs with no X
session running.



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Len Ovens
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