Here is my Arch Linux desktop with gnome + adesklets. gdesklets is very slow, my system is not able to run the same. adesklets is a wonderful light weight desktop widget tool.
If you have to gain all these other "soft skills" or business skills in order to just be a regular software engineer, then why keep working for someone else? One of the main reasons for being an employee is because it's (supposed to be) both easier and safer than striking out on your own. Instead of long hours and having to wear many hats, you can just concentrate on your own skill, and leave the business stuff to the people who specialize in that. Anyone familiar with the idea of specialized labor should understand this. The downside is (supposed to be) your pay is lower than it could potentially be by owning and operating your own business. If today's corporations want their regular rank-and-file employees to wear many hats, be multi-talented, and have a lot of business skills, then they're simply not doing their own jobs correctly. - Grishnakh (Slashdot user)
Thava says:
nice…
Posted on February 20, 2007 at 2:45 am.
linuxowns says:
A year or 2 late, but I still thinks this desktop looks great, only the late xmms looks ugly.
Posted on May 22, 2008 at 8:09 pm.
me says:
very nice…just switched to Arch myself, and couldn’t get gdesklets to work. this seems a nice alternative.
thanx
Posted on August 17, 2008 at 1:46 am.