[GRLUG] Linux software recommendation for mp3 player

[john-thomas richards]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:32:49AM -0400, Collin wrote:
> > I am not afraid of KDE nor am I suggesting there is anything wrong with
> > KDE or any k* apps.  My statement above simply is that I do not have any
> > KDE/QT apps or libraries installed on my system.  I fail to see the
> > benefit of installing a ton of cruft on my system just to ran a single
> > application.  I fail to see the benefit of loading a bunch of libraries
> > into RAM for one application.  This is not denigrating KDE.  I remember
> > using KDE back in the 1.0 days.  For years I thought it was the best
> > open source project out there as the developers spit out update after
> > update and each release was truly better than the one before it.  Then I
> > discovered enlightenment and preferred its simpler interface.  I choose
> > the applications that best suit my needs.  None of them happen to be KDE
> > apps.
> 
> Yes, I suppose that's understandable. I use enlightenment on less 
> capable boxes. When your machine is a P4 with 1GB of RAM or more you 
> start to not care as much when KDE sucks up all the available RAM in the 
> universe (hey, it looks pretty! SHINY!!!!) but when you are running a 
> 400Mhz machine you tend not to want to deal with something as big and 
> bloated as KDE.

I do not use enlightenment because my machine is underpowered.  I use
enlightenment because it does what I want it to do.  "Shiny" has no
sway with me.  I use the blacke theme
(http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/blacke/).

> For me running KDE just mainly down to the shiny factor and 
> configurability. The apps just plain look nicer. They probably aren't 
> any more useable or anything but sometimes it's nice to see good 
> graphics on screen. I figure, if you are going to run a GUI you might as 
> well use a pretty one. And it's availability to really get under the 
> hood is nice too.
> 
> For my part, I don't care about harddrive cruft. I have gnome libraries 
> installed for just a few gnome apps. I don't even like gnome at all. To 
> me it's not a big deal but to each his own.

This is why I use [fF]ree software.
-- 
john-thomas
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the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the
ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves
without wondering.
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