Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 19:09 UTC, submitted by Claudio
The WashingtonPost has an interesting article on the matter, but registration required.
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XFCE was designed as a clone of CDE, the default desktop on Solaris.
It's relatively lightweight, and does a good job of not getting in the way of doing work. Since the conversion to GTK2, it's also less ugly than CDE (Motif), or old XFCE (GTK1).
These days, however, I'm doing the WindowMaker thing again, along with GWorkspace for file manager duties, and Terminal.app as the xterm replacement. So far, so good.
KDE is horrid, and I can't stand to use it. Gnome is much more usable, but it's still pretty bloated. I'm also kind of disliking the look of Gnome these days. The cartoonish SVG icons, and horridly antialiased fonts (or worse, stolen MS fonts) become distracting.