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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
I voted xfce. Gnome has gone rogue with 3 - completely dissing the end-user public, afaic. Reading some of the internal Gnome foundation messages about all that dev work makes this conclusion obvious, and sad. They used a shotgun to shoot themselves in the foot, and the results are predictably messy.
KDE is sharp, and now they have apparently recovered from their self-inflicted wounds. I still have tools and whatnot from Gnome that I prefer, and installing both environments annoys my sensibilities. And, for some reason I don't quite understand, KDE has never been able to win any long term time on my desktop. Too much "K" cuteness? Idk.
MATE is good, and just as nice as Gnome 2. It is a little more polished than xfce, as Gnome2 was, but xfce is faster.
Lxde is only good for you if you are a true linux geek, and I won't vote for a desktop of the year for the geeks. My goals are still to win over a larger percentage of end-users. Restricting usability to geeks will never achieve that.
Enlightenment is extremely cool, but it has too small a user base. I like it, but when you have issues, you can feel pretty lonely.
Equinox desktop environment didn't even get mentioned in the poll. At least razor-qt made it.
I typically just use a window manager and several utilities of my choosing not a full-fledged desktop environment. Recently switched from Openbox to jwm as window manager of choice. jwm is more lightweight than Openbox and it still has a lot of the features I liked in Openbox. I also run a clock program like dclock and utilities like autocutsel and set rxvt-unicode to run in daemon mode. Am looking into setting up some alternative menus and considering 9menu, dmenu and gpe-appmgr. May also just write my own menuing systems.
Xfce is fast and has a small footprint, and I prefer system resources to be free for applications. KDE is just too much for my needs, and Gnome... I tried it, but not having a touch screen on my desk I couldn't appreciate it.
Guys, have a look around. Enlightenment, or 'E17' isn't a desktop environment, it is a window manager. You can vote for it in the window manager of the year poll.
E17 is a window manager, just so you know, you can vote for it in the window managers of the year.
I can't figure out why Enlightenment is still considered a Window Manager. A window manager that includes desktop widgets, a panel, a file manager, a terminal emulator and much more... Well...
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Originally Posted by lm8
Equinox desktop environment didn't even get mentioned in the poll.
Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager.
Hope that gives you some help.
Just because it offers a panel it doesn't mean that it is no longer a window manager. Many window managers offer a panel, fluxbox and openbox come to mind.
As for the file manager and terminal, i agree that these are not window manager functions and enlightenment as gone beyond and become a light weight desktop environment. But as long as the Enlightenment devs consider it a window manager, i suspect Jeremy will conform.
Hope that gives you some help.
Just because it offers a panel it doesn't mean that it is no longer a window manager. Many window managers offer a panel, fluxbox and openbox come to mind.
As for the file manager and terminal, i agree that these are not window manager functions and enlightenment as gone beyond and become a light weight desktop environment. But as long as the Enlightenment devs consider it a window manager, i suspect Jeremy will conform.
Well, they say it is not just a window manager, but also... I think the devs don't even know what it is anymore! They should have started with just a WM and added more later. Many others that we consider as DEs have much less that e17, like ROX, Equinox, and probably Razor-Qt, although some of these don't provide a WM.
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