[lug] Gnome rant and request for suggestions.

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 19:45:56 MDT 2006


On 7/10/06, dan radom <dan at radom.org> wrote:
> Jason Davis wrote:
> > So .. can anyone recommend a polished
> > desktop software that is not KDE or Gnome?
> >
>
> Although it's considerably lighter weight than gnome / kde the XFCE
> desktop environment is a very usable desktop environment.  It's
> 'polished' as you put it, but a slightly different gem altogether.
>

I've used both XFCE and IceWM. XFCE is more polished, but IceWM
provides all I really need - multiple desktops. The critical (IMO)
missing feature from IceWM is RUN. I used bbrun to fill in the void.
Shades of the past: a few of our developers at work still run FVWM2!!!

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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