On Mon Apr03'23 09:24:57PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
From: Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 21:24:57 -0400
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: GNOME interface is too bulky
On Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:39:25 +0930
Tim via users wrote:
> Icons, icons, icons! I can't find a damn thing by icons.
Yes! A stop sign and an envelope are pretty much it for icons that
make some sense, after those two it is all guesswork (and I wonder how
the envelope will age with no one sending physical letters
any longer :-).
Personally, I use the FVWM window manager and my own custom .fvwmrc
file which doesn't completely change my interface every six months.
Wow, I used to use twm for a while, pre-Fedora, and then fvwm2, and then went to xfce
briefly before pekwm and then settling on openbox. I make my own remix, and my wife who
used to make fun of my desktop environment (shunya/zero) eventually adopted it, and does
not want to go back. She went kde -> xfce -> lxde -> openbox. (She still makes
fun of it though.)
There is something to be said for stability and backwards compatibility, which seems to be
missing from at least a few modern software -- I was long ago given to understand that
achieving 1.0 in a software version meant that backwards compatibility would be maintained
in the future, however this does not seem to be the case anymore.
Unfortunately, I have read that openbox and other such window managers will stop working
as wayland progresses without more development. I hope that is too long into the future.
Ranjan