[olug] xfce and the other guys

[Will Langford]

I'd have to install and play with it some more...

But it's possible that being 'standard compliant' with whole free desktop
environment api/etc stuff... that other applications that comply with the
'standard' will work and integrate well.

I wonder how many apps comply... cuz... that'd be the difference.

A desktop environment providing services nothing uses is.. still.. just a WM
:)

I've not used XFCE since 3.x ..  I liked it about as much as I liked window
maker / after step / E16.

-Will

On 12/14/05, Robert Alan Jacobs <r.a.jacobs at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> > Will Langford wrote:
> >
> >> XFCE is just a window manager... there's not a huge abstraction layer
> for
> >> everything to be integrated like there is with KDE/GNOME.
> >>
> >> If you want less bloat, don't mind rolling your own desktop, and doing
> >> things a bit different from application to application, then
> >> XFCE/WindowMaker/Enlightenment/Afterstep is for you.
> >
> >
> > No, XFce is a full DE.  I took the plunge last night, and worked with it
> > awhile.  So far, I like it better than Gnome, but I don't have much to
> > base that on right now.
>
> I was about to side with Will on this one and call you on it, Tim.  I've
> *always* known XFCE to be a window manager, not a DE.  According to
> their site [1], however, they *are* a DE.
>
> Now, that might be marketing speak but I will say that XFCE looks a lot
> more advanced than I remember it.  Anyone else, want to chime in?
>
> Personally, I use Gnome. I haven't tried KDE in forever but, at the time
> I was making the choice between KDE and Gnome, KDE looked too much like
> Windows 95. I've become accustomed to Gnome and don't see any reason to
> switch to KDE.
>
> [1] http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en
>
> -raj
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