Linus on Gnome 3.2

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:04:10PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote
> 
> I have had exactly the same experience, but with KDE, so I think it is
> more a matter of personal preference. KDE always seems like a
> nightmare to make anything work the way I want it, and I find the look
> of it kind of awkward. I hate the file chooser dialogue beyond
> comprehension.
> 
> I only use maybe half a dozen apps on a regular basis, so maybe that
> has something to do with it. I hate the KDE menu, I don't need even a
> fraction of the applications.
> 
> Gnome 3 without the Tweak Tool would be infuriating for anyone with a
> desire for a lot of personalization, but now that I have that working
> I honestly don't see what's missing.

  The pox on both their houses.  I use ICEWM.  I don't run desktops, I
run applications.  I also don't understand multiple desktops.  My first
encounter with them was when I'd move the mouse pointer out of the way,
and all my apps disappeared on me... not very newbie-friendly.

  I either ALT-TAB between apps, or move the mouse down to the bottom
where the menu bar pops up.  It has an area with icons for launching my
selected apps, a "commandline" area, cpu-load applet, date-time applet,
network applet for each network interface, and on my laptop there's an
applet for battery time remaining.  There's also a row for currently
open apps and windows.  I can click on that row to select the currently
running app I want.  Desktop icons would be useless, because I tend to
have several apps open all the time, and the desktop is totally covered
most of the time.

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