On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
For a maximal dogfood experience, I was looking around for a way to use a replacement Windows shell with Wine as my desktop environment instead of gnome or kde.
So far, all the ones I've found are either broken, hard to use, or just plain weird.
I've been working through the list at http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Microsoft_Windows/S...
http://www.astonshell.com/aston/ - couldn't figure out how to run it?
http://www.emergedesktop.org/ - kind of works, but very minimal, no start menu
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~mosses/rob/liteshell.html - works, but very minimal, no start menu
http://purels.org - no help, just exits, saying "ha ha, you didn't configure me". Obviously not meant for me :-)
http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm - pretty, but no Programs menu?! (Maybe that's there but broken, wine bug?)
http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/download.html - ROS explorer - prebuilt binary there is 3 years out of date, doesn't work too well
Anyone have a favorite I should try?
- Dan
I haven't tried these in awhile but they worked decently enough a couple years ago on xp/2000
Blackbox window manager for windows (dont worry desktop icon/system tray plugin is included by default) http://www.bb4win.org/news.php
Litestep (highly customzieable, tons of plugins afterStep/NextStep clone) http://www.lsdev.org/doku.php
--John