I think we need a discussion

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Wed Aug 31 03:37:20 UTC 2011


On 08/30/2011 09:47 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:26:59 -0500
> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
>> Does a linux user really care for a Trash can?
> Not me, especially not one that conforms to the insanely
> cryptic freedesktop.org trash standards.
>
> Personally I use the simple window manager FVWM, and I use
> it with my own, built from scratch, .fvwmrc file that doesn't
> get changed out from under me in every release.
>
> However, on each new release, I am constantly panting around
> after gnome trying to discover what new daemons gnome programs
> rely upon so I can start them in my .xsession file.
>
> (The gnome developers appear to have the philosophy:
> "never call a subroutine when dbus communication with a
> separate daemon can be substituted, and never start a daemon
> on demand when it can be running 24/7 instead even if
> you only need it once a week." :-).
I also would like to see your custom config files.

Thanks,

John



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