On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 02:15 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On Sat, August 31, 2013 11:19 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > There are a lot of other good (and also lots of bad) DEs, but Xfce4 is > > the DE that is most similar to GNOME2 + stable + in official > > repositories of Debian and many other distros. I suspect the OP wants > > GNOME2, so recommending KDE (a good DE) or recommending Fluxbox and LXDE > > (good DEs too) isn't good. To recommend something unstable as > > Enlightenment or something that comes with similar issues as GNOME 3, > > e.g. Cinnamon or something that isn't in official repositories from > > Debian and most other distros, e.g. Mate isn't good too. IMO the OP > > should test Xfce4. Just to name each DE we know and like isn't a help > > for the OP. > > Actually, Ralf, I've been using Enlightenment for a good year now and find > it as solid as a rock. > > Vastly improved, in that regard, from the old days of all the 'burnished > metal finishes and etc.
My apologize Weaver, indeed it might be more than a year ago, that I tested it the last time. So ok, it now is stable. In the old days it wasn't that close to GNOME 2 as Xfce is, I still suspect that Xfce is the best recommendation as a replacement for GNOME. I might be mistaken with this too ;). Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1378032951.704.2.camel@archlinux
