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  • Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE

    From Mercyful Fate@VERT/CYBERIA to Avalon_ on Friday, January 31, 2014 21:22:00
    Trinity Desktop Environment is fork of KDE 3.5,so it is serious competitor! :D

    KDE 3.5 is awesome for older systems.. i wouldnt run the latest desktops on anything p4 and earlier.

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  • From KF5QEO@VERT/MAINLINE to Poindexter Fortran on Friday, January 31, 2014 22:42:27
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Poindexter Fortran to Nightfox on Fri Jan 31 2014 08:34:07

    I think the touch interface and a small-sized device (tablet) is convenient if you want to stretch out in bed and do some reading, but other than that, I don't really use a touch interface. I don't like getting finger smudges on my screen, either.
    I've got a windows 8.1 Ultrabook that I use much like I used to use my netbook. I program for Windows and PIC microprocessors. I also check my mail, facebook, update my BBS, and used to make Digital Contacts on ham radio, until my ANTENNA CAME DOWN! The only complaints I have is until re-configured, the cursor keeps annoyingly opening up the bottom menu or the settings menu, etc. but now, it seems to be working pretty good. I tend to spend the majority of the time in the desktop. What I do love is how in internet explorer, when reading on facebook, I can just zoom out with 2 fingers on the screen, rather than clicking a menu and selecting what percentage I want to zoom out, etc. I can skip a lot of articles quickly by dragging the screen up, much quicker than pgdwn actually.

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Mercyful Fate on Saturday, February 01, 2014 08:54:41
    Re: Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Mercyful Fate to Avalon_ on Fri Jan 31 2014 09:22 pm

    KDE 3.5 is awesome for older systems.. i wouldnt run the latest desktops on anything p4 and earlier.

    I'm pretty happy with LXDE - you can make it look like old Gnome, and it runs on low-overhead systems nicely.

    I started running it on a PIII, still use it on a dual core laptop with 4 GB.

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  • From KF5QEO@VERT/MAINLINE to Poindexter Fortran on Saturday, February 01, 2014 15:30:37
    Re: Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Poindexter Fortran to Mercyful Fate on Sat Feb 01 2014 08:54:41

    I'm pretty happy with LXDE - you can make it look like old Gnome, and it runs on low-overhead systems nicely.
    It's what Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi comes standard with. I'm happy with it.

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  • From Mercyful Fate@VERT/CYBERIA to Poindexter Fortran on Saturday, February 01, 2014 23:48:00
    KDE 3.5 is awesome for older systems.. i wouldnt run the latest desk on anything p4 and earlier.

    I'm pretty happy with LXDE - you can make it look like old Gnome, and it runs on low-overhead systems nicely.

    Sounds pretty nice, if i still was using my AMD 600 mhz, i would probably
    check it out, but i've updated to my old desktop which is a AMD x2 64 +4800
    and it actually runs the latest 4.x KDE real nice. I've always liked KDE and each release gets smoother and smoother.

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  • From Android8675@VERT/SHODAN to Nightfox on Sunday, February 02, 2014 07:32:11
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Nightfox to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Jan 31 2014 07:48 am

    in the past few years have touch screens started to become common in home computers. Why now?

    Because iPad/Apple made touch interfaces work. Take a look at old HP all-in-one computers that had touch screens, and I don't mean the static multi-point screens, I'm talking the ones that had the plastic membrains and picked up 1 MAYBE 2 points at a time.

    They just outright sucked... Now Windows 8 copied Apple and touch screens are all the new static multi point screens. It just works now where in the past it was stupid... I guess that's IMO, but I think most would agree.

    -A.

    p.s.-sorry been offline a week, dunno if this is a dead subject already. ;)


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  • From HusTler@VERT/DIGDIST to Nightfox on Sunday, February 02, 2014 11:13:01
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Nightfox to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Jan 31 2014 07:48:57

    getting finger smudges on my screen, either. What I think is a little odd is that touch screen technology has been around for quite a long time and has been used in things such as ATMs at the bank and other places but only in the past few years have touch screens started to become common in home computers. Why now?

    Nightfox

    Simple. Cause it's easier. People have been trying to find an easier way of doing any type of task that requires some work for centuries. I missed out on investing in technolgy which is my bad. After seeing people go bannanas over the TV remote control I said to my self "Self..this computer stuff is gonna be big". People just love making things happen pushing buttons. If we look to the future I can see a lounge chair with buttons that bring us everything from a cookie to a naked woman with a touch of a button. Maybe this is "the next best thing"? That's just my opinion...I could be wrong. ;-)

    HusTler

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  • From HusTler@VERT/DIGDIST to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, February 02, 2014 11:16:57
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Poindexter Fortran to Nightfox on Fri Jan 31 2014 08:34:07

    After all the time I spent telling my kids not to touch the screens, now I'm supposed to tell them to touch'm? No way - not unless they're going to clean the screens, too!

    Aahhh. That's funny as shit! I just pissed myself.

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Mercyful Fate on Sunday, February 02, 2014 13:10:49
    Re: Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Mercyful Fate to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Feb 01 2014 11:48 pm

    +4800 and it actually runs the latest 4.x KDE real nice. I've always liked KDE and each release gets smoother and smoother.

    I need to download Kubuntu tomorrow (from work - dual 100 mbps pipes!) and check it out.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Android8675 on Sunday, February 02, 2014 15:08:38
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Android8675 to Nightfox on Sun Feb 02 2014 07:32:11

    in the past few years have touch screens started to become common in
    home computers. Why now?

    Because iPad/Apple made touch interfaces work. Take a look at old HP all-in-one computers that had touch screens, and I don't mean the static multi-point screens, I'm talking the ones that had the plastic membrains and picked up 1 MAYBE 2 points at a time.

    I think you're right.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Nightfox on Monday, February 03, 2014 00:04:49
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Nightfox to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Jan 31 2014 07:48 am

    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Poindexter Fortran to Nightfox on Thu Jan 30 2014 22:11:50

    I just ordered my first batch of laptops with touch screens for work, we'll see how well they work when we get the ability to image them
    with Windows 8.1 -- waiting for some back-end upgrades first.

    I'm curmudgeonly - I hat glossy screens. I'll stick with the non-glossy, non-touch screens for now. Saves about a hundred dollars, too.

    I think the touch interface and a small-sized device (tablet) is convenient if you want to stretch out in bed and do some reading, but other than that, I don't really use a touch interface. I don't like getting finger smudges on my screen, either. What I think is a little odd is that touch screen technology has been around for quite a long time and has been used in
    things such as ATMs at the bank and other places but only in the past few years have touch screens started to become common in home computers. Why now?

    I think only within the past 10 years or so did touch screens become advanced and cost-effective to the point of being viable for personal computing and communications devices. I remember playing with a touch-screen monitor for a commodore back in the 8th grade (1983?) and the detection resolution was so crude it was kind of a joke really. And in one of my first professional programming jobs (1990), creating a touch screen interface in X/Motif and while
    the resolution was better, it was not miniaturized and commoditized to the degree it is now.

    Anyway, I agree: a PC does not need a touch scren. A touch pad maybe, but we've
    had those for many years and they're not much different from mice. Perhaps a second (or third or fourth) screen that's also a touch pad and sits close to your keyboard (like the Wii-U?) will become popular. <shrug> I know I have no desire to reach out and touch my PC monitors.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Digital Man on Monday, February 03, 2014 08:59:38
    What I think is a little
    odd is that touch screen technology has been around for quite a long
    time and has been used in things such as ATMs at the bank and other places but only in the past few years have touch screens started to become common in home computers. Why now?

    I think only within the past 10 years or so did touch screens become advanced and cost-effective to the point of being viable for personal computing and communications devices. I remember playing with a
    touch-screen monitor for a commodore back in the 8th grade (1983?) and the detection resolution was so crude it was kind of a joke really. And in one of my first professional programming jobs (1990), creating a touch screen interface in X/Motif and while the resolution was better, it was not miniaturized and commoditized to the degree it is now.

    Makes sense.. Before using one of Apple's iPod Touch devices, I hadn't used a touch screen in a long time. So I probably forgot how bad the first touch screens were.

    Nightfox

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Digital Man on Monday, February 03, 2014 10:14:39
    Re: Whisker Menu for XFCE
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Feb 03 2014 12:04 am

    Anyway, I agree: a PC does not need a touch scren. A touch pad maybe,
    but we've had those for many years and they're not much different from mice.

    <shrug> I know I have no desire to reach out and touch my PC
    monitors.

    The ergonomics of touching a screen seem horrendous! We've spent time and money in the company getting people's desks, chairs, keyboards and monitors arranged just so to minimize the possibility of repetitive injuries and aches n' pains, now we're going to have people spend time leaning forward pointing and swiping at a screen in front of them?

    I think I want to go back to vi and keyboard commands.

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