Why use a Desktop Environment?

bb-boy · 02-05-2002, 03:13 PM

I dont see the point in using one... why do people use kde/gnome?
why not just run bb, e, ice, etc by itself?
all you need is qt, gtk widgets.
why do people use them?

rshaw · 02-05-2002, 03:20 PM

because it's not the '70's anymore.

ryanstrayer · 02-05-2002, 08:36 PM

Because people feel the need to be inidated in complexity and problems. If there system isn't crashing every five minutes, something is wrong (esspecially if it doesn't look like a Microsoft product). So therefor we have Gnome and KDE to thank for that.

trickykid · 02-05-2002, 08:45 PM

i don't use them.. but use XFce... and only tend to use it when I want to look at graphics ( make as well ), and the web and maybe typing using abiword... everything else tends to stay command line..

DavidPhillips · 02-05-2002, 09:08 PM

What are you using on LFS trickykid?

trickykid · 02-05-2002, 09:15 PM

actually i was using XFce but my LFS I am trying to find the time to restart as its just blank partitions, trying to totally customize this time on my LFS, creating the partitions instead of using one large partition to start out with. until I start it up again hopefully tomorrow on my day off.. but most likely I will use XFce again and probably GNOME..

DavidPhillips · 02-05-2002, 11:07 PM

I think I will try Xfce on mine

I am compiling glibc now, got a ways to go.

I only have three partitions for mine

elist · 02-06-2002, 02:34 AM

I use WindowMaker, and in my opinion the only thing that beats that is black box. I would use BB all the time, cept I don't have the time to set it all up how I would like. It's much easier to setup WM.
The fact that you can just click on the desktop to get a menu is nice, rather than always heading off with the mouse to get to the 'start' menu. Who needs to waste screen space with a task bar?

DavidPhillips · 02-06-2002, 09:09 PM

for those taskbar lovers, you can still have one in wmaker if you want.

el_felipe · 02-07-2002, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by rshaw
because it's not the '70's anymore.

ha ha ha

BTW I use enlightenment with a nice GNOME panel

el_felipe

rlpt · 02-07-2002, 10:46 AM

Im never really sure what 'desktop enviroment' means. I think it is just a window manager, using a particular widget set and some applications that come with it.

Anyway i use blackbox on low end systems and gnome/sawfish on faster machines, because i just love the gnome panel and gtk+.

DavidPhillips · 02-07-2002, 11:11 AM

I have a few I'm trying on LFS now

wmaker
xfce
mwm
twm

there all pretty fast

I want to get CDE but I guess it's not free

gotta get black box, the sites been down

thinking about gnome

elist · 02-07-2002, 11:12 AM

You mention getting blackbox, have you tried fluxbox?

DavidPhillips · 02-07-2002, 11:15 AM

not yet

DavidPhillips · 02-07-2002, 11:24 AM

OK now I do,

Add fluxbox to the list