Does anyone build applications from source code anymore?

[josolanes]

Haha, that's almost what I've about to say, just with me it's fluxbox instead of fvwm. I never got FVWM look any nice . Fluxbox is nice and kinda give me a good feeling, but KDE has all those neat features, and konqueror + it's kioslaves rocks... Very nice integration too, one app which browses files, samba, internet, ftp, opens compressed files, views images...

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I've used fvwm-crystal before, I agree that regular fvwm is very difficult (or time consuming) to make look good. fvwm-crystal has several pre-set fvwm styles that look very nice and are easy to switch between

In arch (underground), it's in the unstable repository as "fvwm-crystal"

[fingal]

I usually compile smaller packages from source (for example, libraries) and I usually try to assess how many dependencies a given package has before deciding to take the wild and woolly approach. Actually, I like compiling from source: it's interesting to see what you end up with. I usually:

./configure
su
<password>
make && make install && make clean

I also use urpmi for bigger 'complex' apps.

As for guis I love them! With all that memory and disk space, why not use one? Of course I only have a desktop box, so I would say that!

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

well, since i can't get gentoo working on my lappy i can't use portage
i have debian on my lappy as well which limits my source usage. although on my SuSE partition, i do compile as much source as possible.