Totem/Eina/Gamp

[Myles Green]

On Sat, 2004-11-12 at 18:56 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> Yes, I am currently reading stuff about Xfce all over the web, and just
> found out about this installer. Sounds incredible, so easy and user
> friendly. That said, had Gnome had the same thing (Garnome scares the
> hell out of me...), it would have let me installed Gnome 2.8 myself on
> Mandrake 9.2 (what I was using), and I would probably not have given
> Ubuntu a try !  :-O Scary thought isn't it ?! ;o)

I've installed XFce a few times now, on different systems, and have had
no problems at all (had to fetch a few deps from debian testing, though
they're prolly in universe or multiverse), just sit back and watch it
build. :-)

> But seriously, although I have to keep reading about it, this latest
> Xfce seems really a great DE. Basically all the advantage of Gnome, easy
> to use, clean and consistent looking desktop, without the problems...
> sluggish-ness (is that a word ?) and stability (every app or applet just
> keeps crashing/disappearing every now and then ! :-/ ).

Hmmm, I haven't run into that yet. Must be a YMMV case.

> So with this wonderful installer, it defininetely fits Ubuntu's aim for
> a user friendly, nice looking and fast DE. Maybe Ubuntu should offer a
> Xfce version... Oh, I am starting to sound like the chap who wanted to
> put KDE in Ubuntu my God ! Okay I think it's time to stop there ;o)

I installed IceWM-experimental, it's _very_ fast and light and has
pretty much every application installed in the programs menu (yes, I
went nuts with synaptic <grin>)

> > Having said that though, I'm still using Gnome as installed with Ubuntu - I kinda like it :-)
> 
> Yeah.... what would we do without our Gnome :o)  A bit slow but with
> todays machines, not a problem. Stability should be there primary goal
> now.... lots of work indeed !! :-O :o(((

Are you running warty or hoary? I have no stability issues here.

Take care,
Myles

-- 
Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net>
Calgary AB Canada
Ubuntu Linux 4.10 "The Warty Warthog"
My GPG/PGP public key is available on this site:
http://keyserver-beta.pgp.com/
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