On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 09/16/2011 06:19 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> If you want to adapt the DE to your needs (as opposed to adapting
> yourself to a new DE), KDE seems to be the best possible choice.
The first time I used XFCE after installing it, my desktop looked almost
exactly the same way it had under Gnome 2. My wallpaper was the same,
my panel was where I wanted it, with most of the icons I wanted right
where they'd always been (I'd love to get rid of the Trash icon and Show
Desktop icon, but aside from that, it's almost exactly the same.) and so
on. Almost no learning curve. That's why I recommend it. Can KDE do
the same?
I tinkered with xfce this evening on an old laptop running f16 - I
actually pretty well like xfce and it is pretty snappy on old hardware
too, as well as being pretty configurable - the only initial
irritation was that I could not set up scrolling and tapping on the
touchpad - but adding stuff to the config file in
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf got things the way I
wanted....
Certainly it was functionally useful and even compared to KDE on that
machine which at the present time is pretty sluggish even with the
faster kernel-3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16 installed and running - so it
was a breath of fresh air trying xfce on that machine - I have no
doubt that KDE in f16 on a faster more up to date machine would do
what I needed... but there is a choice of DEs which is nice.
--
mike c