On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:09:37AM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote:
Sounds like you guys hate CLI environments and probably use Siri / Google Assistant / Alexa / *voice* as a near ideal human-like user interface then?
Desktop environments take their name and derive the concept from offices in the pre-electronic age. Window managers sound like something only pertinent to computers. Like terminals.
Sounds quite un-Linuxy.
I say this partially in jest, but also to point out the seeming contradiction in what I inferred as the points being made.
Personally I want a window manage that lets me arrange my terminal windows (although I mostly run them fullscreen with tabs for each session), lets me open programs (preferable with alf+F2 and typing in what I want), and has a minimize, maxmimize and close botton on the window. I don't care about icons on the desktop (it's always covered up anyhow, so useless place for icons), nor file managers (I have a shell thank you very much). And of course alt+tab has to cycle through windows, preferably in most recently viewed to least recently viewed order. Everything gnome 3 has done is wrong. It's developers have no clue what they are doing and sure don't care about user feedback. They hijacked a project name, threw everything away and started over with a terrible idea of what a desktop should be, with no regard to users. -- Len Sorensen