[Tfug] Gnome usage

[erich]

This machine.
        Wants to be a workstation ( X-windows from other boxes on local 
display), and
a multimedia device.

         I've been reading some of the literature for the upgrade. We 
need pulseaudio,
systemd is required, consolekit is obsolete. It has security issues

          Systemd has issues with udev. Wow that was a hassle getting 
the session
manager, (consolekit is a part of that), to work with X-org server (It 
now has some
very nice security features, but they're not good enough)

Erich

Bexley Hall wrote:
> Hi Zack, Erich,
>
> On 3/23/2014 1:55 AM, Zack Breckenridge wrote:
>> I say it's not worth the hassle if you have to pull in all the 
>> dependencies
>> manually. I usually keep Gnome installed if it's there by default, or 
>> else
>> never install it, and use a "light weight" tiling window manager like 
>> dwm.
>
> +1
>
> I'm a big fan of a really *sparse* desktop.  I'm there to do work, not
> look at slick wallpaper et ilk.  I prefer the uwm derivatives -- twm,
> etc. and just bind the most common commands to menu entries.  The rest
> I hammer out on the keyboard (as I spend most of my time writing
> code/documentation, having to grab the mouse for damn near *anything*
> is a needless complication -- keys leaving the keyboard means there is
> a definite dip in "output".
>
>> I'm not a big fan of complex GUIs anyway as I believe they tend to 
>> get in
>> the way more than they help. Although this requires more CLI 
>> knowledge, I
>> don't believe you have to be a command line super user to do basic tasks
>> like watch movies (mplayer /path/to/movie).
>
> I think it depends on what you expect from the machine.  I tend to keep
> half a dozen or more xterms open (and their offspring) and use the
> mouse primarily to shift focus.  But, I spend most of my time working
> with text so being keyboard-centric makes sense (to me, YMMV).
>
> It also is a big win in those times when the system won't boot to
> multiuser, won't mount /usr/lib, etc. -- and you are *stuck* with
> command line.  Are your man pages accessible from the root partition?
> What do you do when /usr/{share,lib} isn't (yet) available?
>
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