On 07/20/2014 04:57 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
Of all the possible GNOME2 replacement DE candidates I evaluated at the time -- and I looked at over a dozen -- Cinnamon was by far and away the closest thing I found.
Possibly you and I have different ideas of 'get out of the way' for a DE. If I compare by that criteria then xfce is less intrusive, less there to have to deal with, than Cinnamon. In fact there is so much missing from xfce for someone used to KDE that it feels like reverting to a pedal cycle after driving a ... Well, I realise KDE could be compared to a modern luxury car, but the gap isn't *that* great. Perhaps xfce need to be the basic 1960s LADA or 2CV, manual everything, no automatics or banks of stuff on the console to fiddle with. In many ways Cinnamon feels more like reverting to Windows XP or possibly W/7. (Ah, I see there's a theme for that!) where you have to reboot or log out/in for many things to take effect. The most annoying thing I found with Cinnamon was that it demanded certain things of the hardware config/X config or you got a message on the top right (which never seemed to want to go away) telling you that you hardware wasn't up to snuff. I run with "NoAccell" to get around a bug in the nouveau driver with my hardware. Cinnamon doesn't like that. If I turn Accell on Cinnamon likes that but after a few minutes my system hangs. I don't get this hassle with KDE, lxde or xfce. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org