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A grumpy editor's calendar search
A grumpy editor's calendar search
Posted Mar 11, 2004 16:53 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: A grumpy editor's calendar search by pimlott
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> It's sad that there doesn't seem to be
> a by-and-for hackers desktop these days.
There is. It's called bash and it comes in two competing flavours: Bash+Vim and Bash+Emacs. (really.)
If you're actually looking for a desktop for "power users", then yeh, there's none that I know of. (a scriptable, keynavigatable desktop would be very nice.)
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A grumpy editor's calendar search
Posted Mar 11, 2004 17:30 UTC (Thu) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535) [Link]
It's sad that there doesn't seem to be a by-and-for hackers desktop these days.There is. It's called bash and it comes in two competing flavours: Bash+Vim and Bash+Emacs. (really.)
*cough*zsh*cough* 'Scuse me.
There's a lot missing in those "desktops" that even most hackers can't get along without. You really need a graphical web browser that understands the many languages and protocols used today. There doesn't exist one without a clunky, inflexible UI. I also need a PDF reader, a movie player, and (occasionally) an AIM client--which actually pretty much rounds out the graphical programs I use, but that doesn't mean I might not use others if they didn't suck so much. I think the command line crowd has to broaden its perspective a bit.
A grumpy editor's calendar search
Posted Mar 12, 2004 11:03 UTC (Fri) by amdias (guest, #6441) [Link]
"There's a lot missing in those "desktops" that even most hackers can't get along without."
Sure, I aggree with you: I also couldn't live without a graphical desktop... but I also would like to have "a scriptable, keynavigatable desktop". My best approach, these days, is fluxbox.
"Power user's" desktop, scriptable and hotkeyable
Posted Mar 12, 2004 11:40 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]
> (a scriptable, keynavigatable desktop would be very nice.)Well, within certain limits, most notably the system resources required,
KDE does have that ability, given its DCOP scriptability, and configurable
hotkeys. There are individual apps that don't lend themselves to
keyboarding so well, including much of kicker and applets available for
it, but since kicker like much of KDE is quite configurable, those can be
kept to a minium if desired. As well, a power user should know how to
"power use" a mouse as well as a keyboard, IMO, and then choose the best
tool for the job and based on personal preferences, which is more or less
the definition of a "power user" in the first place, isn't it?
Of course, even KDE, when run on a desktop built on a dual Opteron 242 w/
a gig of memory, can be fast. =:^) I'm currently about 2/3 done with the
research I need to do to start the switch from Mandrake to Gentoo (due to
Mandrake's lack of current KDE on the AMD64 platform.. even in cooker..
still stuck with 3.1.4 when 3.2.1 was just released!), which should
improve performance even MORE. =:^) =:^) =:^) I hope to kick off the
actual install in the next couple of days, after finishing the research,
and deciding whether it's more efficient to go stage-3+binary install now
and recompile everything later when I figure out the options I want, or
figure them out now and set it up to do it right, from a stage-1 install.
Duncan