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On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Tom Brough <tombrough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/10/10 00:06, Grant Sewell wrote: > > On 29 Oct 2010 23:24, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. ...and you call yourself a sysadmin pah! :-p lol lol Roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq