I use to love dropline but recently I have hated it. In my case it caused a lot of dependency issues with different programs.I prefer XFCE anyway

Such strong statements are usually backed up with reasons.

I think I'm gonna remove dropline forever, or at least until they stop messing with things they're not supposed to. I hope I won't have to do a complete reinstall...

I'll go back to fluxbox, and reinstall Gnome, and then I'll be the one who controls my OS, again.

I have been a dropline-gnome user for sometime now. I love it. Beautiful and intuitive GUI. My only complain is that it is very MEM hungry. I have 1GByte of RAM. Without any other program running accept for the system and dropline-gnome, it runs with 450-500++MByte of RAM. Then yesterday, I tried out fluxbox, it only runs with 88MByte. What a contrast.

I may switch

I have been using drop line gnome foe about 6 months now, I have had good sucsess getting every thing working.

the only issuse i have with it now it has gone to 2.6 is the fact that it is like runing windows 95, the horid file managment windows.

I hate them that much i just use a terminal more oftern : )

I like the new colour scheem and the transparancy. Xorg seem very stable and seem to be working very well with the nvidia drivers.

I always use a terminal.

Anyway, I dropped DLG on this machine recently. After compiling my first 2.6 kernel, along with using Gnome 2.4, everything runs a lot faster than using DLG.

However, DLG is still cool. Anyone who is interested should try it.

IMHO dropline gnome could almost start there own distrobution. They change so much on a full install that they are pretty close. Also I have had much better luck by just using swaret and not having strange things that dropline updated and conflicts with slackware current.

I use dropline 2.6 and have no major complaints.

Although I would possible prefer someting lighter such as XFCE, my family also uses my computer and need something closer to Windows.

My only complaint would be that it has interfered with KDE (Which I dont use anyway so it doesn't really matter), such that many of the liks in the KDE menu no longer work.

--Ian

I have been on Dropline for about 4 months; I gave it a try because of some dependencies with evolution that were ticking me off. Download, install and configure were flawless. Any new file manager takes getting used to (probably because i prefer the console) but this is a great application.

Tom

I have ram, dropline uses it. I have fast cpu, dropline uses it. It's pretty, my computer is being used.

I hate the new "spatial metaphor" too. It is default for gnome 2.6 so the next version of slack will probably have it as default. The good news is you can go back to the old browsing method by running "gconf-editor" and selecting apps -> nautilus -> preferences and selecting the "always_use_browser" box.

You can edit the dropline-installer preferences to not remove programs. I think this should definitely be the default setting though, especially for non-dropline apps.

I actually dont mind the new nautilus, YOU Just have to LEARN how to use it correctly....

For example, midde clicking folders will open the new folder but close the parent folder.


I have Dropline installed, it is nice but too much of a memory hog. I playing around with FluxBox still looking for a Windomanager that I like

I TRIED using it, but I don't LIKE double-clicking with the middle mouse button because my wheel always seems to scroll. I don't think that people who are new to Linux are going to want to have to LEARN a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to be able to navigate easily. I think the old method should be the default. It seems that the "spatial metaphor" is more likely to be utilized by advanced users who could easily figure out how to change the setting. As it is now, noobs who try out Gnome are just going to be reminded of Windows 95, then move to KDE.

1) What does the dropline installer do that swaret/slapt-get doesn't (or vice versa)? Would I need swaret/slapt-get for anything if I have dropline installer?

2) Could someone explain in greater (but simple) detail this whole thing about how DL "optimizes" Gnome for Slackware? What the hell does that mean, exactly?

3) If I downloaded and installed Gnome on my own and installed the way kewl vera fonts (or other nice anti-aliased fonts like that), would I have a system that looked just like a DL system? Other than not having the dropline-installer app, would I be missing anything notable?

I installed DG because I wanted Gimp2.0 and didn't want to mess around with the dependancies. I still haven't got GnuCash to work but that's alright. So far I love it although it is a RAM hog... I can deal with that. When I want to get serious I just boot into the terminal and things are rockin!