Good to be back !

[joe_schmoe]

Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Since I've had a heck of a problem with trying
> to catch up with .rpm's on Mandrake, I stopped
> mailing to this list for about a year.
> 
> However I found a descent distro that respects
> itself (aka debian) and since I am pretty happy
> with it, I am back for some xfce tweaking.
> 
> OK, some of you might call me a romantic, but I
> do miss the old style xfce window style.
> 
> Don't get me wrong. I am a CDE junkie :-)
> 
> Two questions :
> 
> On Debian v3.1r0, there is a release of xfce
> (I cannot remember the version now, but it was
> pretty recent) and ,
> 
> 1. I would like to install the newest version
> of xfce
> 
> and
> 
> 2. I would like to set it up in such a way so
> that I have the "--enable-old-style" windows
> (big buttons on panel etc.)
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with this ?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> s.
> 

Yeah, I clung onto my old Xfce-3.98 for as long as I possibly could 
because I really enjoyed the "clunkiness" (in the nicest possible way, 
of course :) ) of it. Oh well ... it is too bad that both code sets 
couldn't be maintained for those of us who enjoy the retro look of CDE.

Peace

/j