On Mon Apr03'23 09:24:57PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
From: Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 21:24:57 -0400 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users users@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