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woodland
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| Posted:8/8/2005 12:21:26 AM |
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Great initiative.......... keep up the good work plz
desktop replacements:
maybe you could give a little more info on Emerge, LDE(X)?
p.s there is a little typo in the link to Lde(x) you forgot the l in ldex.terica.net
p.s.2 maybe a link to the litestep installer would be nize for the newbies: http://beyondconvention.net/ohussain/lsinstaller/
i haven't found any info on Geoshell? http://geoshell.com
Aston is a commercial product all the others are Freeware
Widgets:
it's not released yet but its "rumoured" to be very promising; Phatbits: http://www.phatbits.com/
see this article: http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/08/01/widget-application-performance/
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balkaster
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| Posted:12/30/2005 3:25:42 AM |
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I agree somewhat with woodland. There is better coverage of specific software in this guide than in other guides out there, but the software covered is not necessarily representative of everything that's out there. I would also like to see more of the leading shells covered (GeoShell, Enlightenment, Litestep branches, etc.) and some more detail on the ones that are already covered (especially the differences between the BB for Win branches). Consider it a work in progress.
For instance:
- You brought up the point in the intro, but you didn't follow through until almost the end: GUI replacements and skinning engines DO use up more system resources, thus making the machine slower. Faster newer machines will not be as strongly affected as slower older ones, but these apps do use resources and that does slow performance, whether it's immediately noticeable or not. In addition, some of the GUI replacements and shells you mention are coded on NT, 2K or XP, and are extremely unkind to 9x variants, often reducing available resources to dangerous levels regardless of the age and speed of the machine. You touch on this, but you don't provide the new user with much help in determining what to avoid.
- I have no experience of ObjectDock, but I do have some with WorkShelf. The WorkShelf icons do not behave like true Windows icons. Although you can drag Windows icons onto WorkShelf to create WorkShelf icons, you cannot drag documents onto the WorkShelf icon for an application to open that document in that application. Having experience with other Stardock products, I imagine something similar is true of ObjectDock. Thus, they really aren't true replacements for the desktop, they are simply organizable launchers.
- HoverDesk and NextStart ARE NOT SHELLS. They are GUI replacements. Windows Explorer is the shell when these apps are running. They do not replace Windows Explorer, they merely skin and extensively customize the Explorer GUI. They can also be run alongside the standard Windows GUI (although why you'd want to...).
- Talisman is unique in that it can be used as a shell extension (adding customizable functionality to the standard Windows GUI), as a GUI replacement (allowing you to skin or customize the Explorer GUI directly like Hoverdesk or Winstep) or as a shell. It is not free.
- Not everyone is using XP. Try opening this up to other users by specifying which apps will work on which Win OSs. Trying to use something on a version of Windows for which it was never intended is going to cause problems.
- The difficulty of replacing the shell varies depending on the replacement, but the biggest problem is trying to make a shell intended for one version of Windows work on another version for which it was not designed. Unless you're willing to have new users destroy their Windows install, please specify which shells work best with which Windows version and how to safely install and run a replacement.
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