Advice for Red Hat/Fedora
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 23:02:37 UTC 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Henning Larsen <hennlar at start.no> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 08:35 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:01 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > I do wish I had the choice to have a gnome free (as in `rpm -qa | grep
> > > gnome` returns no results).
> >
> > I wish the opposite, KDE free... But leaving that war aside for the
> > moment, it is annoying anytime that you come across an application that
> > depends on you having a particular GUI system. Even more so when you
> > don't have it installed. It'd be far less annoying if it could just
> > draw windows, use sound, etc., etc., from whatever system you're using.
> >
> > In the past I'd had a bit of a play with some of the more lightweight
> > window managers, only to discover how pointless that was the moment you
> > fired up some application that made use of Gnome or KDE. You had a big
> > wait while all that baggage was loaded. And it makes your system
> > sluggish, negating the benefit of using a lighter weight system. Not to
> > mention if you fired up an application that decided it needed to take
> > over your desktop.
> >
> Is there any initiative from anyone to get rid of these problems. I
> don't want gnome, I don't want KDE, but I want krename and nautilus.
>
> Could those and other programs get freed from KDE/Gnome?
>
> I thought Linux is about openness not lockin like it is now.
>
> Henning Larsen
I think that is an unrealistic goal, to be frank. You want apps tied
to each DE but not the DEs themselves. I want just one DE and I can
barely get that.
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