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View Poll Results: Desktop environment of Slackware users
kde 127 61.35%
xfce 46 22.22%
gnome 22 10.63%
fluxbox 36 17.39%
blackbox 4 1.93%
wmaker 8 3.86%
fvwm2 11 5.31%
twm 2 0.97%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 207. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-12-2008, 11:20 AM   #46
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wht i like xfce, use it with risteto, and xarchiver and thunar pluggins, all transparencies without any difficulty(in kde it is buggy)
gnome
It's called ristretto image viewer.
 
Old 02-12-2008, 12:46 PM   #47
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I like the many desktop choices that are available. I can no longer run KDE on my AMD-K62 now, since it has become quite heavy in load. Whenever I build a new computer I will play with KDE again. Ever since then I have been using Fluxbox, its nice and functional for what I need, and because I don't really use any kind of file manager like ROX or anything. Just xterm, but if I do use a file manager, I use midnight commander. Ah memories.

I recently also played with XFCE4 which is available on Slackware12. It is nice and I like it, but even XFCE has become quite heavy on my system. So back to Fluxbox, which isn't a bad thing.

I also have been doing some digging around on other enviornments, and found out about CDE (Common Desktop Environment). Looks pretty neat, but it is proprietary and the OpenGroup doesn't look like they are going to release the code any time soon. Sure there is LessTif/OpenMotif, but CDE looks so much more interesting.

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Old 02-13-2008, 04:35 AM   #48
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It's called ristretto image viewer.
sorry for the mistake and thankyou for the correction. anyway it is slim
 
Old 02-13-2008, 04:42 AM   #49
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so Jeebizz's choice was flluxbox??
if there weren't any multiple choices, i suppose kde % would have been below 50%

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Ever since then I have been using Fluxbox, its nice and functional for what I need, and because I don't really use any kind of file manager like ROX or anything. Just xterm, but if I do use a file manager, I use midnight commander. Ah memories.
what about image viewer, go for ristretto!!
 
Old 02-13-2008, 08:00 PM   #50
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I must admit that my personal favourite is KDE.

There's a larger support base, some pretty funky apps, and probably one of the better ones to look at. I also find it easily configurable to do pretty much whatever I want it to do, find it easy to navigate, and it's pretty snappy on my system.

Although I do confess to not having tried all the environments available. I've tried GNOME, but didn't fancy it much, as was also the case with XFCE. I've also tried a few others a while back (can't remember exactly what they were now though) but wasn't too impressed with those either. Probably because I was too used to something else at that time and didn't feel like a change. Who knows...

Either way, Smurfs like KDE at the moment

Cheers,
- Smurfed
 
Old 02-13-2008, 08:30 PM   #51
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e17 (which isn't here), no bloat, optimized coding, etc...
Where did you get the tgz (and or source package) for e17?
 
Old 02-13-2008, 09:22 PM   #52
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Slackbuilds.org has a slackbuild for enlightenment, and it's dependencies.
 
Old 02-13-2008, 09:31 PM   #53
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Slackbuilds.org has a slackbuild for enlightenment, and it's dependencies.
Thats e16. Thanks though..
 
Old 02-14-2008, 02:40 AM   #54
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Thats e16. Thanks though..
From http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=download&l=en

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Download Enlightenment DR17 and the EFL

While DR17 and the EFL are primarily available from CVS there are a few, unofficial, packages for various distros along with snapshot tarballs. If you wish to use CVS please see the contributing section for more information.

Snapshot releases are available from download.enlightenment.org.
The slackBuild points to one of these snapshots, so it sounds like it is e17 to me. The newest snapshot available is enlightenment-0.16.999.042.
 
Old 02-15-2008, 03:25 PM   #55
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Mostly KDE, though i find myself spending more time in GNOME since i installed Ubuntu... fvwm when i find a nice config on the net or WindowMaker when i am in the mood for a no-nonsense window manager
 
Old 02-17-2008, 10:44 PM   #56
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KDE for me.
Runs well enough on my old T22/384 MB ram.I've used XFCE but if you want a desktop then why not use the best ie KDE.

Slackware + KDE is the perfect combination of stability and bells and whistles.
 
Old 02-18-2008, 02:10 AM   #57
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i never tried gnome on slack 12

going to try gsb, !! new gnome 2.20.3, hope i may like it

even if gnome is removed, 10% are still using it, so let me have a try
regards
rkrishna

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Old 02-18-2008, 02:23 AM   #58
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Compared to the poll from 2006, there are about the same number of kde users, but fewer fluxbox users. I don't know if that is just because gnome is in this poll, whereas it wasn't included in the last one.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=desktop+poll
 
Old 02-18-2008, 02:27 AM   #59
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KDE for me.I've used XFCE but if you want a desktop then why not use the best ie KDE.

Slackware + KDE is the perfect combination of stability and bells and whistles.
but new xfce is good
 
Old 02-18-2008, 04:45 AM   #60
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Compared to the poll from 2006, there are about the same number of kde users, but fewer fluxbox users. I don't know if that is just because gnome is in this poll, whereas it wasn't included in the last one.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=desktop+poll
my main aim was to find the no. of non kde users.

it is a usual practice that everyone stick to the default desk, for example redhat users (till redhat9) always used gnome, they didnt even tried kde.

and slackers always had a different taste, i found a few interest in gnome and i am going to try gsb

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