[TriLUG] Windows Managers Survey

[G.Wolfe Woodbury]

On 04/29/13 14:39, John Vaughters wrote:
> GNOME 2 at work
> GNOME 3 at home


Having played around with various commercial and consumer interfaces for
55 years, I will chime in on this topic.

I was happy with GNOME from its inception to the end of GNOME 2.x
The major reorganization of GNOME 3.x is to much like the dictatorship
of M$oft. I don't use tablets, I'm most comfortable with a CLI and
simple, fully adjustable menu system.

I've currently settled om KDE for simplicity, I also load GNOME services
and libraries for some apps.
I *like* the concepts of Enlightenment, but the implementation is much
too complex to configure the way I would like it to be.

In testing, I will often just do XFCE with Gnome libraries/services for
some applications.  For very low memory setups that want a GUI, I'll do
LXDE and limit the apps to simple GTK stuff.

Prior to the inception of GNOME, I used simple CLI (text) interfaces and
enjoyed the occasional X Windows apps.

For the VIC20, I wrote a small GUI (in Basic and 6502 assembly) for the
fun of it.  I also wrote TUI semi-IDE shell extensions.  Also did a BBS
in bash for an Interactive Unix (later SCO UNIX)

I do have a decent x86_64 setup so KDE+GNOMEuchs works well enough.

Thanks for the chance to reminisce and brag a bit. :-)

-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury
redwolfe at gmail.com