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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 15, 2012 19:25 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by rleigh
Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

I do data scientific data visualization as a dayjob. gnome3 worksforme. Then again fvwm2 and CDE workforme as well as environments under which to perform scientific data visualization...as generally speaking the environment doesn't really matter. If your using python or C or IDL or matlab or whatever the hell your domain specific science analysis tools are written in.. the usability of the science tools themselves are orders of magnitude less advanced than any operating enviroment you could possible pick.

Now whether or not my scientific simulation, coding and visualization work is "real work" or not is certainly open for debate. And I frankly I question whether most "science" is "real work" and not just people "goofing off." But real or imagined, whatever work I do for my dayjob I do it in a gnome3 environment now, and its not getting in my way for that work afaict.


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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 17, 2012 8:49 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

It may very well be case. If you spend most of the time in the GUI of some (any) application, then the desktop shell is not that important, as long as it gives you a convenient way to start said application.

But the environment is really important in some cases. Take bash for instance. It has a crapload of features that enhance your productivity, even if it's only purpose is starting tools and feeding them file names. It seems obvious to me that when you need to use many tools in coordination is when the environment really matters.

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