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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
As far as I'm concern there is no better desktop environment than e17.
E17 is a window manager, just so you know, you can vote for it in the window managers of the year.
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Not entirely accurate, MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 by Perberos. Linux Mint helps out but also has it's finger in a few other pies.
Thanks for clearing that up. I am sick of seeing people announce Linux Mint forked Mate. I knew it was some folks over in the Arch community, but wasn't sure who exactly, thanks. +1
Out of interest, k3lt, what did you vote for Gnome or Mate?
KDE4 had totally come of age this year. Properly mature and stable. PIM and poor default settings are still weak points, but overall it's a cracking desktop and definately should be the default linux desktop now.
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E17 is a window manager, just so you know, you can vote for it in the window managers of the year.
Thanks for clearing that up. I am sick of seeing people announce Linux Mint forked Mate. I knew it was some folks over in the Arch community, but wasn't sure who exactly, thanks. +1
Out of interest, k3lt, what did you vote for Gnome or Mate?
Unity, because it just makes sense. Seriously, I fail to understand what all the fuss was about over in the Ubuntu forums. Sure, it's a little different and takes a few minutes to learn, but Unity is a full-featured DE that I consider one of the easiest to use without a lot of useless, unnecessary, resource-hogging eye candy.
Unity, because it just makes sense. Seriously, I fail to understand what all the fuss was about over in the Ubuntu forums. Sure, it's a little different and takes a few minutes to learn, but Unity is a full-featured DE that I consider one of the easiest to use without a lot of useless, unnecessary, resource-hogging eye candy.
JM2C
If it wasn't for the universal taskbar, i'd like Unity.
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Unity, because it just makes sense. Seriously, I fail to understand what all the fuss was about over in the Ubuntu forums. Sure, it's a little different and takes a few minutes to learn, but Unity is a full-featured DE that I consider one of the easiest to use without a lot of useless, unnecessary, resource-hogging eye candy.
JM2C
Unity is a modified Gnome 3 with an Ubuntu appearence. Just like Cinnamon is a modified Gnome 3 with a Mint appearence.
If it wasn't for the universal taskbar, i'd like Unity.
To each his own, but that's what I do like about Unity. The launchbar has a clean, organized appearance, you can customize it with the programs you want, and it's certainly a lot more useful than the "jello" windows from Gnome/Compiz.
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Uh huh... and XFCE is Gnome2 with a few config options missing, but it still works for those who like it.
Nope, not at all. XFCE is not Gnome 2 with a few config ......... It is XFCE, it started with Xforms toolkit but moved to GTK about XFCE3. Gnome has always been built with GTK.
To each his own, but that's what I do like about Unity. The launchbar has a clean, organized appearance, you can customize it with the programs you want, and it's certainly a lot more useful than the "jello" windows from Gnome/Compiz.
Well, i'll disagree with the word certainly, but if it works for you, that's great.
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Uh huh... and XFCE is Gnome2 with a few config options missing, but it still works for those who like it.
I hate to but in on this, but you've missed the point.
I'm pretty sure k3lt, was referring to the remark you made, 'Unity is a full-featured DE'. Unity, although, Ubunuts "desktop environment", the only part that is unity is the shell (the main part you interact with), besides the shell, it's still Gnome 3 with the window manager switched. Although, i believe Ubuntu has forked Nautilus to behave differently with Unity now?
That's how i'd describe it anyway. It's a technicality, which is irrelevant to the thread and can cause confusion in my opinion.
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The launchbar has a clean, organized appearance, you can customize it with the programs you want, and it's certainly a lot more useful than the "jello" windows from Gnome/Compiz.
