Ranting About Desktop Environments

Coffee break
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One should have no trouble finding hyprland dot files on github, or any other WM for that matter. Most people who have a working setup save their dot files and share them there.

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Here are some examples from Hyprland’s Wiki

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Up until two weeks ago I just copied other people’s dotfiles. I am working on writing my own so that it is not just a copy and paste of JaKooLit’s or ML4W’s. I think OM should also have a unique feeling hyprland setup for the iso rather than just taking a premade config.

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Part of the problem with Gnome is it follows some of the stupid conventions of Microsoft. Such as un-themable titlebars, and there being NO differentiation between a foreground window and background window. No window borders, so if overlapping windows have the same color background, you can’t see where the edges of the windows are, and they all blend into a blob mess. Gnome aren’t the ones to originate user-hostility.
I really think the Gnome designers have never used a computer for actual WORK.

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Sometimes, when I get aggravated by Gnome’s intentional and malicious breakage of GTK+, I’ll switch my desktop over to NsCDE. It’s actually quite pleasant if you have an underlying X11 that can handle dithering & high-color displays (unlike AIX, where I was used to CDE).

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Gnome’s idea of UI development is “We love and copy Microsoft when it comes down to their BAD ideas, but we can’t copy their ideas that are actually ok, that would make us too much like Windows!”
Windows 8-ish menu that worked out so badly even Microsoft ended up reverting it? Sure.
Menus as they have always been (not invented, but popularized by M$)? Never!
No difference between active and inactive windows? Sure!
A child window that can be moved independently of its parent? Never!

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This NsCDE reminds me AmigaOS with MUI, nice one :slight_smile:

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one mans bloat is another mans critical tool.
if you want zero bloat, you’ve necesserily got to have just a window manager. but this lacks practically any functionality other than managing windows.

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That is too much bloat, anything more than a TTY terminal interface is just extra nonsense that should be removed.

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I like your style!

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