Re: [trinity-users] Poll

On Saturday 11 February 2012 23:53:32 Timothy Pearson wrote: I looked into a few other desktop environments when KDE3 was replaced by KDE4 in Debian Squeeze. I'd switched to KDE3 from Gnome2 in Debian Lenny because Gnome2 had become too dumbed down and restrictive. The best of the DEs I tried, before finding Trinity, was XFCE but I found it rather primitive and crude in comparison to KDE3/Trinity. Why on earth would I want to abandon Linux? The primary reasons are the customisablity of the appearance of KDE3/Trinity and a few 'essential' apps that work exactly how I want them to work, such as konqueror, kate, konsole, ksysguard and the quick launcher. Whilst alternatives for konqueror, kate, konsole and the quick launcher are usable I haven't found anything can that can come close to replacing ksysguard. I'm a bit neurotic about system monitoring and half of my panel is occupied with docked ksysguard signal plotters. In addition, I don't use (or even have) any desktop icons, so any DE that relies upon starting apps from the desktop, as opposed to via a panal menu or quick launcher applet is a complete non-starter for me (having to 'reveal' the desktop just to start another app, only to have to restore all the windows again afterwards, interrupts what I'm trying to do and just seems ridiculous). I started working with (mainframe) computers just before my 18th birthday and I'm 54 now - I know how _I_ want to work and don't appreciate anyone trying to force me to work how _they_ think I should work. The bottom line is that people continue to use KDE3/Trinity because they _want_ to; whilst DE dev teams are entirely welcome to offer alternatives, anyone saying that users _should_ change and who then criticise anyone who doesn't is just trying to impose their habits and opinions and on everyone else. Regards, LeeE