My goals in building a BLFS system were:
1. divorce myself from package dependencies that exist in some distros
2. intall only the packages necessary for me
3. make the system easy to operate for my family
I have achieved 1. and 2. I've been using fluxbox and, if it were me
alone, I wouldn't add or change anything. I really don't like either
Gnome or KDE. However, the system now is "too lean" for others with
whom I cohabitate. So, I started nosing around in "the Book" and the
web. I got interested in WindowMaker and GNUstep. I'm now coming to my
question.
One of the GNUstep apps is a "workspace manager." I read its features
and discovered that one can navigate through and manipulate the file
system graphically.--file manager? There are, obviously, other things
it does, but this file manipulation caught my eye.
The things that this "workspace manager" does look similar to what I
think a "desktop environment" does. Are these terms synonymous? If
not, what are the differences?
Does a window manager + workspace manager = desktop environment?
I know that I could just go find a file manager to use with fluxbox.
Would I be heading for the "bloat" that I'm trying to avoid if I tried
the WindowMaker-GNUstep combination? I am also willing to try this
combination to see how it works and provide input to this list with the
purpose of adding it, if it's good enough, to "the Book." Good enough
means, lean, fast, and little overhead compared to Gnome and KDE.
All thoughts, criticisms and flames accepted.
Thanks,
Dan
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