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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 10, 2011 12:09 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by bojan
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

UI is a UI.

I prefer one that I can use efficiently rather then one that is something I have to look at and hunt around icons or lists of text.

Anyways...

The 'activities' switcher is actually quick enough that nowadays I rarely actually can select windows faster then having to hunt around on a list of open windows even if I do feel like using my mouse. :)


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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 10, 2011 12:47 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> UI is a UI.

Don't want to be difficult here, but kinda isn't. When I'm sitting back in my chair, with my hands _not_ at my keyboard, then the graphical UI + mouse is it.

Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 10, 2011 14:30 UTC (Thu) by bjsnider (subscriber, #80975) [Link]

You can use Gnome-Shell without using the keyboard. There's a list of all apps in overview, and they are also categorized like the gnome 2 menus if you want. You can add them to the favourites bar on the left side of the overview screen, and you can get to overview without touching the keyboard.

Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Posted Nov 10, 2011 20:30 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

You missed the sarcasm from this post: http://lwn.net/Articles/466637/.

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