From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 201E2139083 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E58BE0FD5; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E690E0FAE for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [81.108.251.46] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost03b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1eOhtM-00033a-JY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:34:28 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2EC0467113 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:34:28 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:34:27 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? Message-ID: <20171212103427.3d8b0b64@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2476103.saCjEblRYk@peak> References: <6582741.F9gJHCEsXr@dell_xps> <20171210230802.GA26035@waltdnes.org> <88b882e0-8d57-3b8f-2c08-9d0b9c1c68c5@youngman.org.uk> <2476103.saCjEblRYk@peak> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/9sr=on+1876L4EP3NUyV=eY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-smarthost03b-IP: [81.108.251.46] Feedback-ID: 81.108.251.46 X-Archives-Salt: 4a25d3e2-dcdc-41d2-917e-475f8bf6c61b X-Archives-Hash: 089fa3bb3c415e9b53f1980be81f2f30 --Sig_/9sr=on+1876L4EP3NUyV=eY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:24:48 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I more and more get the feeling that linux is standardising on the > > Gnome desktop, which I really just DO NOT get on with. =20 >=20 > Nor I. it's second only to M$ in its arrogance. I have three gnome packages installed on this KDE box. One is the tiny package that started this thread, and is GNOME only in name, the other two are dependencies of XFCE, which I also have installed. I see no GNOME takeover, beyond the fact that many distros are choosing GNOME as their default desktop. --=20 Neil Bothwick If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked "Power" --Sig_/9sr=on+1876L4EP3NUyV=eY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAlovsLMACgkQ92eFu0QS MJjBsQ//Wu9lRMaZBeExexb0ZBSuM9IjB7dyhqAMh6rqtkn++CKiaLAxJmiKBWRl fTFuSyrBKC15+y6DGuzv3E0scP7uqRWABA7Z7h8NVTrJmhXfvabjBo6Oq33hWyfp y9L2qGHgVcAu40R7XpbBmg512Jy9K0RLmACwYcDpAA/fmV+cz64RotN3+spOUqOm brvjX/8kvR16D1qjwh+8tCEAv/+v2dWxyuZI5/dVUZgw+Nq6J8/GMsom/MiGI9fm 3MJqA+WfS2yXxXjEsBtRaw4OWUJbpJNvaXsktb2a+ApQfQh4d0GQB1UNdxQpZEVe k41oJSuSTKmpfgqDVAuOamhx9nNteR020wV5yevlgTlO2hVjmHGlNPdo8jPJwXV4 o8w9JDB8SGy1bMIpijjnhUNWzzp/mMXa+GePPM8QwHd+/V2h69E8S0y51QR1DeUp R73X/dpGgBR9UtVijQ4cUzeCyd8S5xE8HJyU3ZmSjFP/1/JVqpxwKLcrPrE2z4n3 0YUVmVVMVib5sVeG9ldILmG9pEybSrkShKqfUH5tL3UzMwB3nLgVEN9OAe6X6sUg JX2L68krNr6mzm1e13s6LpIcrvmGGjsUP3RFtrw0dft5xR9H/cRlOac8qLA1mkcE bADNIJWSUGdlIv5/SfH9fnjZnygiKxBDa36dfAiUc0ZKj7ZAl90= =k9rl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/9sr=on+1876L4EP3NUyV=eY--