Re: Gnome/E

[Richard <nospam [at] zen.co.uk>]

Simon

> Anyone else use Gnome and Enlightenment?
>
> If you don't and are wondering whether you should have a go, here's a
> quick summary...
>
> Enlightenment - God's own window manager.

I can't get him on the phone so I can't check that out (at these
mobile phone rates I should be able to... well, god *is* American so
we would have to pay stacks to get to talk to him wouldn't we ? I'm
an atheist so it costs me more than anyone)

It's drop dead gorgeous, highly
> configurable (I can't think of anything you can't change) and, so far, has
> been rock solid. Add Eterm for transluscent / tinted console windows and
> you'll never look back.
>
don't know if I like it as much as this :-(

> Gnome - Loads of promise but every boot is a new adventure. It's really
> quite exciting trying to guess which part of gnome won't work today
> (although smart money usually goes with gnome-session.)

Very nice.... love it myself. I've used several Gnome components in
the KDE with SuSE 6.0. Takes a bit of pointing and clicking to do
it.

Thanks

Richard
Sheffield UK
0973 682181

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