Folks; some thoughts on that thread: Personally, I have been using XFCE(3.x, 4.x) for ages, initially because it resembled CDE atop Linux, and now because it seems a good "balance" in some ways. Looking at the features I use, it offers the same GNOME does while beeing (or, at the very least, feeling) a little more light-weight in terms of resource usage.
I am (technically, functionally) whole-heartedly amazed by KDE 4.x, yet so far I have to see how to make most of the applications I heavily rely upon (Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp, NetBeans, Eclipse) and which more or less altogether seem to rely upon GTK2 seamlessly visually fit into the KDE4 desktop. As long as I'm not there yet, KDE is no option... :) Anyway: Uros Nedic schrieb: [...] > Could we make consensus which is the fastest desktop environment > or not? Hardly, I guess... because it pretty much seems to depend upon what you want. ;) I know a whole load of people who, so far, don't really care about using a desktop environment at all but rather prefer using something like fluxbox and a set of additional applications, spending a few hours manually crafting config files to finally have a desktop closest to their needs. I think it's just a matter of choice and criterias that have to be met. From this point of view, talking about desktop environments, I like the way Ubuntu or Fedora are handling this- provide a default install (which seems to be GNOME in both cases) but, along with this, "alternate" installers provided by external people (Spins in Fedora) that come with a different out-of-the-box desktop on live and installation medium. I'd go for an x[fce]opensolaris without second thought. ;) K.
