This software rocks!

[Bryan J. Smith]

I assume these posts should normally be made on Advo-only, but I didn't
see really any activity other there.  I just wanted to thank everyone
who has made this project a reality.

I've been a GNOME weenie since 1.053, and Enlightenment and X-Step type
window managers before that.  I've been a Fedora/Red Hat user primarily
-- both in personal and professional endeavors -- since Red Hat Linux
4.2.  I didn't mind Sawfish (fka Sawmill) in latter GNOME 1.x releases,
but Metacity left me wishing for a lot more in GNOME 2.x.

I had been meaning to try out XFCE for some time, especially since it
was a standard, supported environment in Fedora Core starting with
release 2.  After a fellow Fedora Core 5 user was complaining about how
much memory GNOME/Metacity/Nautilus/etc... was sucking up, I recommended
XFCE (as I always have for the past few years -- especially starting
with FC2).  That meant I had to finally get off my lazy duff and force
myself to play with it for more than a few minutes -- something I
haven't bothered to before because, being an engineer, I always had 4x
the typical memory of most users in all my PCs (home, work, notebook,
etc...).

Totally love the xfwm in XFCE, seems to be far more FreeDesktop
compliant than Metacity and far more dual-head aware too.  XFCE also
doesn't capture F1 and F10 by default (e.g., I still like to run
Midnight Commander from the CLI), which was a pain in standard
GNOME/Metacity.  The entire xfdesktop/session management is sweet.
Interface is clean, capable and a crapload better organized.  And I've
dropped over 200MB in resident memory usage -- and still well over 100MB
even when Evolution is running.

Still haven't had time to play around with and learn all the goodies in
xffm, but I plan to next week.  

Piecemeal but integrated (and better than GNOME's standard components
IMHO).  Small footprint but fully GNOME aware.  Damn fine environment!
I'm going to standardize on it in all my future roll-outs (although I
need to see if RHEL/CentOS includes it yet).

So from a lazy SOB who never bothered to try XFCE before, even though
I've constantly recommend it to those with limited memory ...
  Thank you!   


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Bryan J. Smith        Professional, technical annoyance
mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org  http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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