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Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Posted May 19, 2004 16:36 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals by doodaddy
Parent article: The Spatial Way

Try XFce4. It's light, simple, and looks nice.


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Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Posted May 19, 2004 19:34 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Try XFce4. It's light, simple, and looks nice.

Alas, even XFce has become tainted and follows stupid Windoze-inspired GUI design ideas. I'm coasting along on the excellent XFCE 3.8.18 with no plans to upgrade.

Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Posted May 19, 2004 20:35 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Alas, even XFce has become tainted and follows stupid Windoze-inspired GUI design ideas. I'm coasting along on the excellent XFCE 3.8.18 with no plans to upgrade.

Yeah, 4.x was a disappointment in some ways. I like the way you can toggle the "desktop" menu in 3.x without moving the mouse. In 4.x the menu gets mapped under the pointer, instead of next to it, so you have to move the mouse a wee bit to cancel it. A half dozen small changes like this make 4.x somewhat irritating to use.

Off-Topic: Original GUI Goals

Posted May 19, 2004 20:40 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Bah.

people who cant cope with twm should just keep the computer unplugged.

Sorry.. the urge to be a slashdotter was too much.

In general, and not the post I am replying to, the fact is that this discussion is very much how people's brains work and assuming everyone's brain works the same way. When people dont agree with that or make a different decision.. it becomes a holy war.

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