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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
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KDE
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508 |
43.57% |
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Gnome
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471 |
40.39% |
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Xfce
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131 |
11.23% |
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GNUstep
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3 |
0.26% |
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14 |
1.20% |
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LXDE
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39 |
3.34% |
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01-07-2009, 12:37 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,532
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Desktop Environment of the Year
If you're looking for Fluxbox, Window Maker, Enlightenment or similar options - they are in the Window Manager of the Year poll.
--jeremy
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01-08-2009, 03:17 AM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: pl_PL.lodz
Distribution: FreeBSD
Posts: 370
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There is also LXDE: http://lxde.org |
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01-08-2009, 08:50 AM
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root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,532
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LXDE added.
--jeremy
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01-08-2009, 04:47 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Southern Oregon
Distribution: Laptop: DesktopBSD1.6, openSuse11, Mandriva, Mepis7, BackTrack3....USB: Mandriva2009, Debian-Lenny,
Posts: 82
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KDE3 vs. KDE4
I would be interested in knowing if members prefer KDE3 to KDE4, rather than KDE as a stand alone category. There is a big difference in these two versions of KDE.
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01-08-2009, 04:59 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Milton, WA
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 436
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wificraig
I would be interested in knowing if members prefer KDE3 to KDE4, rather than KDE as a stand alone category. There is a big difference in these two versions of KDE.
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I second that.
I strongly prefer KDE 3 to KDE 4. I'm having a hard time voting for a DE because of this. I really rely on KDE 3's features for a lot of things, but just can't get by with KDE 4 and it's weird desktop icon support. |
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01-09-2009, 02:44 AM
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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
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What about FVWM-Crystal and Afterstep?
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01-09-2009, 07:55 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: London, ON, Canada
Distribution: Arch, Ubuntu, Slackware, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
Posts: 1,853
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Would Enlightenment DR17 count as a desktop environment? I know there is no official release candidate, but it is still quite stable and seems to possess all of the internals of a desktop environment (the only out-of-the-box exception being a system tray).
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01-09-2009, 03:03 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,562
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Gnome.
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01-10-2009, 02:20 AM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 14.0
Posts: 855
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While I am no fan or even user, I would say that the KDE people have had the most guts this year (apart from the strange 'oh-no-4.0-was-only-considered-a-testing-version' comments).
Looking forward to seeing Xfce 4.6 - bound to be interesting.
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01-11-2009, 07:52 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 2,753
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KDE 4 is not quite there yet, but it gets my vote because my kids think it is cool!
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01-11-2009, 07:32 PM
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DLteam
Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Spain
Distribution: Dreamlinux
Posts: 20
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Xfce obviously. Gnome is now bloated, Kde is just too busy...... Lxde doesn't know if it's Gnome or Xfce Lol!
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01-11-2009, 11:01 PM
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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Third Stone from the Sun
Distribution: Sourcemage
Posts: 132
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For a lightweight DE I would say LXDE...it still in development but it's coming along nicely.
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01-12-2009, 02:06 AM
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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
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Gotta be ROX
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01-12-2009, 05:52 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Tacoma, WA
Distribution: Slackware 14
Posts: 214
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Always been a big KDE user, switched to Gnome. Voted for Gnome for the first time.
-JJ
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01-12-2009, 08:59 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using fluxbox, icewm, i3 and wmii
Posts: 275
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Another vote for Rox, especially for older computers.
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