On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 19 October 2014 00:29, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> I'm afraid that Gnome is a bloated serpent's nest of interwoven
>> features and Unweaving it into something lighter, architecturally
>> rational, and supportable as individual components would be like
>> putting handlebars on a Jeep. It might actually work better than the
>> steering wheel, but it's a lot of extra integration work to maintain
>> and likely to break with the next upstream revision.
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> In general this is the case for all desktop environments. After you start
> getting a use case need for X, then all of a sudden you have to either
> rewrite from scratch to keep the sizes down (the Rasterman Enlightenment
> approach) or begin pulling in various things that each require 2 or 3 other
> things and interdepend on 4 or 5 items that may have no use in the work
> environment you are trying to fix.. but might in some other. The Rasterman
> approach has its bonuses but usually finds itself with a growing list of
> "but I need to do this.." that each require a re-engineering from the ground
> up.

Or one can be a regressive Luddite, like me, and stick with the very
lightweight and painfully twm (built into X windows itself) or
somewhat enhanced but also incredibly stable vtwm. ( RPM building
tools at https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm, with the source
for vtwm itself at http://www.vtwm.org).