Comment Integration? Bah. (Score 1) 269
Sure integration and consistent look-and-feel is nice, but at the sake of speed and efficiency?
I use the Blackbox window manager and have carefully picked tools for each job. Some are GTK based, most are console based. I have just what I need, and without the bloat and slowness of KDE (yes, I tried it).
I can't speak for GNOME, as I have not tried it yet, but KDE is obviously for recent Windows-to-Linux converts. I would much rather have a few customizable, powerful tools (BitchX, Emacs, GIMP) than a load of so-so apps that just look like each other.
We see the same thing in Netscape Communicator 4.5 -- a collection of programs that look like each other, but are slow and buggy. A better setup? Mozilla 5, Emacs/Vim/whatever for HTML, , . No, they won't all look the same, but they will be crafted tightly and efficiently for each individual task.
No, I'm not an "old school" programmer or anything. I'm 19 and am a relatively recent Linux convert (5 months ago?). I think the ideal of small, custom tools for each task is MUCH better than a big, slow suite of apps that happen to look great together. What about drag and drop and interoperability you say? What about it? It's not here yet, and frankly, I get by great without that "feature."
[ Aaron Shaver ] [ ultravoid@usa.net ]
I use the Blackbox window manager and have carefully picked tools for each job. Some are GTK based, most are console based. I have just what I need, and without the bloat and slowness of KDE (yes, I tried it).
I can't speak for GNOME, as I have not tried it yet, but KDE is obviously for recent Windows-to-Linux converts. I would much rather have a few customizable, powerful tools (BitchX, Emacs, GIMP) than a load of so-so apps that just look like each other.
We see the same thing in Netscape Communicator 4.5 -- a collection of programs that look like each other, but are slow and buggy. A better setup? Mozilla 5, Emacs/Vim/whatever for HTML, , . No, they won't all look the same, but they will be crafted tightly and efficiently for each individual task.
No, I'm not an "old school" programmer or anything. I'm 19 and am a relatively recent Linux convert (5 months ago?). I think the ideal of small, custom tools for each task is MUCH better than a big, slow suite of apps that happen to look great together. What about drag and drop and interoperability you say? What about it? It's not here yet, and frankly, I get by great without that "feature."
[ Aaron Shaver ] [ ultravoid@usa.net ]
