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	Venemo	2010-07-03 , 01:02
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Originally Posted by Wikiwide

and I don't like shiny interface of Hildon, along with transitions and blurs;

You might want to edit the transitions.ini file to disable those.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Hildon Application Manager is useless, I install almost everything from xterm;

The app manager is for people who like a GUI better than a terminal.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

File Manager is limited, so I currently use combination of Fennec for reading and xterm+vi for editing.

There are other file managers in the repositories.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

KDE and GNOME are too heavy; FVWM, LXDE, E17, Openbox or ICEWM could suit me. I don't know the differences amongst them; deep thanks for explanation.

If you don't know about them, how can you tell that they are what you want?

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Having no shadows, no borders, no gradients in titlebars, statusbars, etc is fine.

You might consider downloading a theme which does exactly this.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Matchbox might be good; it's said to be minimal (very well!) window manager;

Hildon already uses Matchbox.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

but currently Hildon has shiny, gradient buttons, backgrounds, transitions, sparks, blurs, etc, and I don't want them.

Alhough I don't understand what your problem is with these, you can disable them.
transitions.ini + a minimalistic theme can do the job.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

And I have no icons and no widgets on desktop.

Well then, disable the panoramic feature.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Gestures support is also excessive. Tap, double tap and tap-hold are quite enough. Drag-and-drop seems to be unnecessary, too.

This is fairly weird to me, but don't let me stop you!

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