On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Paul, > I do a lot of audio work using apps and a kernel (rt-sources) from > the pro-audio overlay. Jack, Ardour, etc. Really low latency and NO > long window manager > delays are more important for me that they probably are for others. I > ran KDE years ago and it just didn't work very well, but in those days > even Gnome wasn't very good so I used fluxbox which was great. Well, > today Gnome is fine, and maybe KDE would be also. Historically it just > wasn't a good fit more me in the past. > > I guess the other thing that I'm interested in is getting beyond > this "flat/old Gnome is sort of like Windows" sensation that I am > feeling right now so to warrant the effort to actually use something I > suppose I am really looking for something with a really different feel > but it still really works in terms of getting jobs done. Something > that makes me feel good about even firing up the desktop.
Well, if you want something different then KDE4 is definitely different... for better or for worse :) XFCE is more similar to Gnome in that both of them remind me of a Mac OS desktop. (KDE4 is more like Vista/Win7) However, XFCE is a fraction of the size of KDE or Gnome, which is nice. Being able to compile the whole thing in just a few minutes is a good change of pace. Check out http://xwinman.org/ for many other options.
