On 30/10/10 00:06, Grant Sewell wrote:
On 29
Oct 2010 23:24, Gordon Henderson
<gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Â
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Grant Sewell wrote:
> With every passing release, I am getting close and closer
to having a
> damn good clear out of my data, duplicating it somewhere
and plonking
> Debian back on the laptop.
Thought for the weekend: Do you *need* a desktop environment on
your
workstation (ie. the sort of thing that lets you drag and drop
"files" to
the desktop), or could use *use* a windowing environment (ie.
something to
manage lots of individual programs, but not neccessarily allow
them to
communicate with each other or drop files anywhere)...
I know I'm stuck in the dark ages, but I've been using a
windowing
environment since I first used X windows off a Sun worktation.
Before
that, I used 'screen' on vt100 type terminals, before that it
really was
the dark ages, however...
My file manager is 'ls'... And find, locate and a few other
command-line
utilities...
Ah well... time for bed!
Gordon
No, I don't *use* a Desktop Environment for file management
purposes. I can't remember the last time I used Nautilus. I used
to be a died-in-the-wood Sawfish user with an xterm open on
pretty much each virtual desktop.
Grant.
Having said all that (and as a sysadmin I spend 90% of my day at
work on a command line), Im not sure how inkscape, gimp, or (cough)
blender would work over command line. Trying to visualise typed in
co-ordinates and shape definitions, seems a little crazy to me.
Tom.
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