[RULE] Windowslike Desktop

[Richard]

Ingo Lantschner wrote:

>  Hi I just posted the following on the shrikelist. Some context for
>  here: I am testing now rox, its nice but as far as I understood it,
>  even difficult if we consider the situation of our trainees in
>  Zambia. Main points of critisism (TinyX, fluxbox, rox): * Single
>  click starts apps * No Startmenue in the left bottom (like
>  Windows-GUI or Bluecurf)
>
>  Do you have a suggestion?
>
>  --- Does anyone know a light, Windows-like Desktop which runs on
>  TinyX and fluxbox (light alternative to XFRee86 and KDE/Gnome)

I find IceWM with KDE installed gives me the KDE apps and a much
more responsive system.  IceWM is patterned after the Win9x menu
with a few improvements to keyboard shortcuts.

I prefer it to any other window manager I´v tried.

Richard.

>  We have some P166/64MB-PCs for a project in Zambia, thanks to the
>  rule-project we have now a running RH9 - but we have to go away from
>  the unusual interface of fluxbox, since many of the people who learn
>  on the Linux-PCs will later got into Offices with Windows-GUI - and
>  it will not help them if they will be lost there.
>
>  Hope you have got the point, thanks for any help, Ingo.
>  -------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Ingo Lantschner




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