From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Input methods (Emacs and others), plain X [was: Japanese input in Linux environment] Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:12:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20170608091221.GA7887@tuxteam.de> References: <20170607080206.GA3070@workstation> <20170607082638.GA18108@tuxteam.de> <20170607110620.GA24669@tuxteam.de> <20170607201832.GA15082@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496913251 8813 195.159.176.226 (8 Jun 2017 09:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:14:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 08 11:14:04 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dItW0-0001vR-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:14:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48212 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dItW5-00031b-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 05:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dItVf-000306-VL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 05:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dItVc-0006YF-RB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 05:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:49148 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dItVc-0006OI-K6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 05:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dItUL-000273-IO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:12:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113399 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:40:46PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > My significant one is a big GNU/Linux fan and > > uses MATE. Choice is good :) [...] > But I think you downgraded the discussion from > X, Gnome, and KDE. In a book I read that RMS > (rms) was involved. Gnome was to be for the > masses and KDE for the techno-druids. This is > all I remember and I don't remember the name of > the book either. It must have been good, but > I lost it somehow. It's slightly different. The initial main impetus behind GNOME was that the widget toolkit behind KDE, Qt, wasn't Free at the time -- something which has changed long, long time ago. Then, of course, you had different tribes and what not. I think that would be a really thrilling case study for an anthropologist. Perhaps we can learn something from it. > Still the purpose of the DEs isn't clear to me [...] You've got to look into one to understand that, and be it that, like me, you support it for someone else. > Still we haven't touched upon Wayland, Mir, > or Unity. Different things. But we're far, far off-topic by now. If no one complains I propose to stop this thread or to take it off-list. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlk5FPUACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY80gCeNbIpztJROqKNqTUxgLLgPviN K4sAnRvPP9GozYaGDBI/O0rD3oDpaOYl =8NFM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----