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View Poll Results: Desktop Environment of the Year
I don't think Enlightenment goes under the WM category. There's more to it than just some window trimmings.
Yep. I brought this up last year. Jeremy's repsonse was that Enlightenment may well need to be reclassified as DE as it progresses. Rasterman, still calls it a window manager though. Granted his definition of a WM is _very_ broad.
Be that as it may, I do concur that at present the DE category is probably a better fit for Enlightenment. A minimal DE, but it's scope has certainley exceeded WM. How many WM's have their own file manager, Terminal app, media player, etc.??
single click drives me nuts.
constantly opening things i don't want opening,when i was just browsing through folders or something.
I've been using Netrunner for a while.
i think it uses a customized version of kde.
i'm not a fan of the kde desktop,but whatever the Netrunner devs have done works quite well for me.
You can change KDE's behaviour for opening icons with single or double click in systemsettings: Input Devices - Mouse.
For a full polished DE, KDE is my favorite. Great apps, customization and IMHO a bright future with KF5/Plasma5. If you are into QT especially QT5, I recommend you check out the 5 series. It's still not quite there yet (particularly the Apps branch) but I'm definitely liking what I've seen thus far.
I've always been a Gnome fan, although I'm presently hooked up with Unity...and I don't like it much. Meanwhile, I guess I'll be trying the KDE full-time for some time soon.
I know we all know what it means by "KDE" but shouldn't the poll try a little harder to be correct and say "KDE Plasma Workspaces"? KDE is the umbrella / community...
I know we all know what it means by "KDE" but shouldn't the poll try a little harder to be correct and say "KDE Plasma Workspaces"? KDE is the umbrella / community...
Perhaps there is a tendency to refer to the workspaces etc but, as the *original* Linux Desktop Enironment, Matthias Ettrich created a repacement for the clunky and expensive CDE - Common Desktop Enviroment - calling it the Kool Dektop Environment, so the way in which everybody else in this thread uses the term KDE is, in fact, correct.
For information purposes readers make like to refer to this post from 1996: https://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php
That's right, KDE has over 18 years behind it, and was based on a great toolkit to start with.
I'm going to say KDE *one* last year, but I'm going to explore other options going forward. I'm just so sick of the bloody bugs! Akonadi daemon bringing CPU usage up to 100% until I kill it, Kmail spamming my IMAP server with requests until it gets locked out, baloo leaking memory, kio-mtp crashing 90% of the time I try to access files on my phone, screenblanking not auto-disabling with fullscreen browser videos... Ugh!
GNOME3 is a non-starter for me; I *hate* that kind of interface. Unity, I've never even tried. MATE is GNOME2 which I loved, but I refuse to name a fork of an *old* DE the DE "of the year".
XFCE could easily, EASILY get my vote if they would just bring Thunar up to par!
So yeah, I guess it's KDE but that doesn't mean I like it very much. Some of its applications are amazing and keep me using it, so for that reason I'll keep my vote with them for now.
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