A grumpy editor's calendar search [LWN.net]

A grumpy editor's calendar search

Posted Mar 11, 2004 17:30 UTC (Thu) by pimlott (guest, #1535)
In reply to: A grumpy editor's calendar search by coriordan
Parent article: A grumpy editor's calendar search

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.

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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.