On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:41:34AM +0100, Dave Briggs wrote:
I'm not sure what my ideal GUI would have. Probably Desktop-only, with a folder with applications on it, and one for files. Perhaps a floating toolbar with regularly used apps and the time and stuff on it, but even that might be making things too complicated!
Anyone else care to describe (as much as they can) their ideal GUI?
You can configure Gnome as you describe above, all my commonly used programs (firefox, calculator, openoffice, newsreader, etc.) are on my gnome taskbar although that may be a bit heavy for such minimalist desires, I suppose you could also look at XFCE.
I tend to use my gnome gui as a complete desktop environment, with things like the weather applet, network i/o monitors, cpu/memory/swap/loadavg, typing break reminder, keyboard layout switching tools, sticky notes, screen resolution switcher, dictionary lookup etc. all over the place. I mean, I have all these things available so why not use them :) I have six virtual desktops for various apps etc. and have everything configured (well, everything that can be configured so) to remember where it should be when I login.
The only thing I am not keen on is file management, but then I have never really been fond of doing file management with any kind of gui or command line.
Adam