-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2008-12-03 at 19:52 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
What takes the resources is making the desktop "pretty" and having it "respond" to what you are doing. Personally, I want the program to run when I click it. I don't need windows to "grow" and "shrink" when I minimize/maximize. I want it to go away or come back. It's like hiding the taskbar. I have the buttons on both sides and when I click them, it dissappears. No animation. Other than the window redrawing to fill in the new space, it's fast. Doesn't matter if I'm on my Celeron E1200 overclocked to 3.2 Ghz or my Dual P3/Xeon 500Mhz Desktop.
Then there is always icewm and twm and .... which will have no problems on minimal/older hardware. It's not like you have to drive a Cadilac just because you can afford it/or not :^)
You *do* have a choice, that's what linux stands for.
Mmmm. No, that is like having an oldish car (5..8 years?), the head lamp cracks, you take it to the mechanic, and he says that he is going to replace the entire head lamp with a new xenon fixture instead, on both sides. Yeah, very new, good business for the mechanic, bad for me (think of head lamp failure at dead of night on nowhere; then think again of filament bulbs - I'll take bulbs, thankyou). That's bad. One of the "pro Linux" points of all times has been that you could keep using old hardware that was no longer usable with windows, and save money and trees in the process. Al those nice whistles are very nice indeed, but it would be better having the option to disable all that clutter and still keep using the desktop of your choice. Instead, you are telling that instead of having a shiny European car, you will have to keep your old Mustang running :-p It is not: keep using kde3, then. No, you tell them to switch to icewm. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk3xucACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Ws1ACfTk9JNYU4mfnSu6rghcQ/St53 k2QAnR9i4cm/8wXTy3OF5i8XPNaixuC5 =m5Ju -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org