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  1. Because ROX by oGMo · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE?

    Because I've been using RiscOS on X for awhile and see no reason to change. It's not "gnome" (though it uses gtk). It's interactively very fast even on slow hardware. It's functionally very fast; apply all sorts of filters, selections, and commands to the current window, or bring up a shell in the window's cwd by typing "x". It's an augmentation of the terminal, not a UI for casual users. It's extremely screen-space efficient, since I can do everything and keep all the menubars and toolbars off, and the icons small. It offers a nice direct-manipulation-oriented interface (i.e., comprehensive DND).

    Even if KDE offers all of this, it would have to offer quite a bit more in addition to make it worth switching.

  2. Re:Continuity is the winning strategy. by Ed+Avis · · Score: 1 · on Does the Linux Desktop Innovate Too Much?

    I also use every application maximized to the full screen. The behaviour of current window managers, copying Microsoft Windows, makes it just too painful to have overlapping windows. Any click in a window's area forces it to the front, which is a total PITA. I much prefer the model used by ROX where clicking on the title bar forces a window to the front, but otherwise you can interact with a window even while it's overlapped by another. This opens up all sorts of possibilities for better interaction between applications, in particular, drag-and-drop file saving and loading.

  3. Re:xfce by Hatta · · Score: 1 · on A Look At the Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment

    You can also try Rox desktop, for a small and highly functional desktop. You can use whatever window manager you like.

    Also, you can use Compiz as a window manager on its own.

  4. Re:GIMP relies on having decent window managers by Ed+Avis · · Score: 1 · on First Looks at The Gimp 2.5

    I sympathize; I remember in the old days using several small windows but over the past few years I've got more used to having each app in a single window which is always maximized. So my web browser is full screen, as is xemacs, and the mail client, and anything else. This despite desktop resolution being several times greater. Partly the fault is with cluttered interfaces that have too many menubars and toolbars, partly 'Windows weenies' (which might even include me) who are used to a big document window with its own buttons in the window, rather than separate toolbox windows.

    Apart from MDI, the biggest user interface design mistake made and perpetuated by Microsoft Windows is the way that you cannot do anything in a window without it being forced to the top. This makes it awkward to use overlapping windows on your screen - you end up either carefully tiling the windows so that they don't overlap, or going with one big maximized window at a time. I greatly prefer the approach taken by ROX where you can work in background windows and they stay background, unless you choose to bring them to the front by clicking on the title bar.

  5. Whatever by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1 · on Is Linus Torvalds Speaking for Linux Anymore?

    "if it were up to Torvalds, beauty and intuition would take a backseat to functionality. But when you look at distributions like Ubuntu or OpenSuse, it looks like no one is paying attention.


    Done right, functionality *IS* beauty and intuition. That I can chain a bunch of simple things together *EASILY* with shell scripts is beautiful and intuitive. Quite the opposite with that thing that was born of redmond. That many linux desktops are chasing windoze metaphors (and this is EXACTLY WHY Ubuntu and OpenSuse have problems) instead of doing it better and integrated with "the unix way" is a travesty.

    Things like this (This isn't linux, just something that runs on it, mind you) are very cool and the types of things that linux desktops *should* be doing rather than trying to behave like windows, IMNSHO: Renaming Files in Bulk with Rox-Filer (you can select in the gui using regular expressions and such...nifty). See? *THAT* is pretty innovative.
  6. Re:IBM vs. Sun? by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1 · on IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2

    You might want to give rox filer a try (replacing whatever desktop/pinboard manager you currently use ... I like rox with windowmaker). It's not the WPS, but it gives you a lot of flexibility, and allows you to do very cool things using just normal shell scripts.

    http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-Filer

    Features: http://roscidus.com/Manual/Manual/Manual.html

    -- Another former OS/2 user wishing for WPS on linux

  7. Re:IBM vs. Sun? by SCHecklerX · · Score: 1 · on IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2

    You might want to give rox filer a try (replacing whatever desktop/pinboard manager you currently use ... I like rox with windowmaker). It's not the WPS, but it gives you a lot of flexibility, and allows you to do very cool things using just normal shell scripts.

    http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-Filer

    Features: http://roscidus.com/Manual/Manual/Manual.html

    -- Another former OS/2 user wishing for WPS on linux