does the desktop matter anymore?

does the desktop matter anymore?

Posted Sep 29, 2005 8:56 UTC (Thu) by kdart (guest, #486)
In reply to: does the desktop matter anymore? by eru
Parent article: KDE 4 promises radical changes to the free desktop (NewsForge)

Exactly. When I assessed what applications I actually use, I find they all use the GTK toolkit, if that. I changed to a more light-weight setup and it works great for me:

XFCE - (menus)
ROX file manager (graphical file management)
rxvt-unicode + zsh (shell interface)
Firefox (the web!)
Thunderbird for graphical email
pine for terminal email (quick interface)
gnumeric (for spreadsheet functions)
abiword (really!)
Gimp (graphics)
inkscape (vector graphics)
gvim (text editing)

All major desktop functions are covered here. I did try KDE in the past. The APIs look cool, but the actual apps are still lacking. The Kmail program twice trashed my home directory via an IMAP server!

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