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c0vert Guru
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject: Alternitives to Gnome and KDE? |
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Are there any alterntives to Gnome or KDE?? _________________ AMD 64 3000+
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Voltago Advocate
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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No.
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No, wait, there are some: http://xwinman.org/ |
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soda_popstar Apprentice
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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XFce4 |
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nightblade Guru
Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 368 Location: back from SE Asia
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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I used Gnome for a while, but switched long time ago to Enlightenment.
I like its graphical impact, and its extreme flexibility when it comes to customize the desktop to your needs. _________________ In God we trust. All the others must provide a valid X.509 certificate |
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firephoto Veteran
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1612 Location: +48° 5' 23.40", -119° 48' 30.00"
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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First it's Gnome or Kde, now it's the others, what's next, xfree vs. xorg? Just kidding... we know xorg is the way to go.
I see you are an XP user. It would probably be easiest to cut your teeth with KDE and then maybe try out XFCE4, or if you need a gui quick get XFCE4 going first but I'm not sure how much faster that would be with the dependencies. I guess if you're installing from a CD it doesn't really matter much using the binaries.
I liked XFCE4 when I used it but id didn't do xinerama very good so I didn't stick with it and I really don't have a need for a minimal DE. |
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c0vert Guru
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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thanks, but whats the best graphic pleasing one, if that makes sense _________________ AMD 64 3000+
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sickboy2583 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 83 Location: UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Most people will say Enlightenment is best for graphics.
I prefer Fluxbox myself.
But as for an alternetive to KDE & Gnome it depends if you mean a fully blown desktop environment. If yes then i guess xfce4 is the best alternetive.
If you just want a window manager then there are many to choose from - FVWM, fluxbox, blackbox, pekwm, evilwm, openbox to name but a few. |
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Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 1052 Location: The Holy city of Honolulu
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Enlightenment is my prefered window manager.... nothing can touch it's flexibility or it's themability (if that's even a word).
Gratuitous screenshots here and here and finally..... here
(EDIT) Also one here _________________ "You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" ~ Dorothy Parker
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nbkolchin Apprentice
Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 290 Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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http://ede.sf.net for light desktop.
If you want eye-candy: KDE + SuperKaramba can do magic.
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c0vert Guru
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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nbkolchin wrote: | http://ede.sf.net for light desktop.
If you want eye-candy: KDE + SuperKaramba can do magic.
Nickolay |
whats superkaramba and where can i get it?
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Quantumstate Apprentice
Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 270 Location: Dallas
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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What's the matter with K?
You running on an embedded device? |
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placeholder Advocate
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose that Xfce4 would be your next best choice. I say that it's about as easy as GNOME/KDE with less bloat. |
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nbkolchin Apprentice
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Quantumstate Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Heck, I'm just running K with baghira. |
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RdsArts Apprentice
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: |
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Don't forget ROX.
Here's a screenshot of it on my desktop. I think it looks nice, and if you really like it there are a number of apps designed for it which are also quite nice as well. (But then, I think AppDirs are the best thing for the Free desktop since X11, so I may be biased) |
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c0vert Guru
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Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:29 am Post subject: |
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cool background _________________ AMD 64 3000+
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