From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SgNL3-0006Sm-Bh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:48:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43911E0760; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F38AE0656 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:46:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E6E1B4002 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:46:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.17 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.17 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.161, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OMRQqXT9DNrj for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2D071B4041 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SgNIY-0005Gh-4V for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:46:18 +0200 Received: from athedsl-354392.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.239.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:46:18 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-354392.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:46:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: 'Best' Desktop Environment Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:46:02 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120617193634.GA30129@waltdnes.org> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-354392.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120607 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 7dd4c6d1-0bb9-4db9-bddd-9f3584d3e38b X-Archives-Hash: ccc625458d73b70e2cd7b0be3acd4d29 On 18/06/12 00:33, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote >>> >>>> In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. You >>>> don't like GNOME? Then don't use it; and if you used it before and >>>> don't like the new version, either get involver to get it "fixed" (for >>>> whatever defintion of "fixed" you want), fork it (although maybe you >>>> should first try Unity, MATE, or Cinnamon before), or go to another >>>> desktop. >>> >>> >>> My attitude towards KDE and GNOME is "the pox on both their houses"; I >>> don't run desktops, I run applications. >> >> >> It's just that most people prefer a unified look and feel, rather than each >> application inventing the same things in a different and incompatible way. >> This is why DEs are so popular. > > We had a unified look and feel...but nobody liked that particular Motif. ;) That was a corporate Unix thing though, not desktop Linux. Good riddance :-P