[ale] Volunteers needed for short demo of unusual desktops
Dow Hurst
Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Fri Sep 24 09:06:35 EDT 2004
I am too far away to come but have been using XFCE with a dual monitor
single desktop under SUSE for a long time. It is really fast compared
to the "mainstream". SUSE preconfigures it enough that I didn't have to
fiddle much to get it working the way I wanted.
Dow
Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I know that many of us like to be a little different from the crowd. We all
>customize our systems in one way or another. Some of us more than others.
>Is that you? Are you pleased with your Linux setup? Do you wonder why
>everyone seems to use GNOME and KDE instead of a cool desktop like yours?
>Then I'm looking for you!
>
>I'm looking for volunteers to step up and give short (~15 min) presentations
>on unusual desktops. When I say "unusual" I mean "anything but GNOME or
>KDE."
>
>When I say "desktop" I mean "one of the many frameworks for building apps that
>look alike and work together." Examples are XFCE, Rox, IceWM, and FLTK
>desktop. There are probably more. I don't mean twm or fvwm, unless someone
>has written a system of fvwm tools that work particularly well together.
>
>If we can get 3-5 people so show off different systems, I think that would be
>a fun meeting.
>
>So, if your'e interested in demoing your unusual desktop, please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael
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