interfaces (was: Re: [OT] Why Yellowdog?)

mascarasnake dontdrill at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 21 10:21:18 MST 2005


- just some helpful info

In Absentia wrote:
> Just a suggestion for the moment, I know that you may not be thrilled 
> with the gnome/kde experience (in there default configuration) so I 
> might suggest using blackbox or maybe cke(? Cholesterol Free Desktop? 
> Something like that…) as these are minimilistic and very functional. 
> Blackbox uses a central context menu for all operations. All menus come 
> from a movable box that can be positioned anywhere you like. Since it 
> runs on an X11 server it should compile under yellowdog (haven’t done it 
> myself on mac hardware, but have used it on Slackware x86 architecture).


freshrpms actually has blackbox (0.65) and bbkeys (0.86) ready to go for 
both YDL 3.0 and 4.0.

cheers, g'luck and all that stuff


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