.... about xfce.

[John Ohno]

A lot of people like xfce because it has some large portion of the
look-and-feel and featureset of gnome while being far smaller and far less
of a PITA to build/debug. After all, the big desktop environments (gnome,
kde) are as big or bigger than the entire x stack, and have often been
modified heavily by distro packagers. Part of the lunar philosophy has been
not to patch things; any bug in the original source should be reported
upstream to the people who caused it, rather than having distro maintainers
have their hands in elbow-deep in huge codebases they don't really
understand -- and a fresh build of gnome can trivially be completely broken
without patches. (I recall building gnome for lunar about six years ago;
everything worked except for icons, all of which came up as the 'unknown
filetype' glyph. This wasn't for lack of an iconpack; instead, it was
something more complicated. I ditched it in favor of e16.)

I don't personally use xfce because it's too heavy for my uses. But, it's
far lighter than gnome & kde, and it's a good choice if you want something
that superficially resembles gnome & kde (in other words, if e16 scares you
because of the lack of a start menu and you can't make heads or tails of
windowmaker/afterstep).


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Jean-Michel Bruenn <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de
> wrote:

> > OK, I was hoping to use GNOME or CINNAMON with Lunar.
>
> Iirc Cinnamon is not in Lunar yet. I'd like to see it as well. However:
> I'd suggest you e17 if you're unhappy with xfce.
>
> > XFCE seems to be based on GTK+, so I believe I will be able to program
> for it easily.
> > (is this correct?)
>
> I never programmed gtk-applications, but I'm curious why it should be
> different to write gtk apps in KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, XFCE, e17 or any
> other wm? GTK-Apps are GTK-Apps and will work in _every_ WM.
>
> > So, yes, I have a question why is XFCE the preferred GUI for Lunar?
>
> yes, maybe.
>
> > I have read that many of you are ex-XFCE developers.
> > Are there any other (historical perhaps) reasons, why XFCE?
> > What is so special about it?
> > Small? Fast? Beautiful? Ugly?
>
> Can't answer these, except for xfce is simple and fast. Xfce has been
> the wm for lunar since I can remember.
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