Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Jun 2005 00:17 UTC
It's been a few years since we ran such a poll. Let's see what most people prefer these days.
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I don't use KDE because I don't like being blinded by lens flare in my X environment. Also because I loathe the configuration applets. For advanced configuration give me a dotfile, I want the simple quick toggles that I'll use often in my graphical configs.
I don't use Gnome because it's fat. I don't think it looks bad, but it's nothing special (Clearlooks is great, but the titlebar really needs some work). I do love the things Gnome offers, though. I use Gnome panel (though it can use some work), Evince, Abiword, Gnumeric, GMPC, mail-notification, Totem, and Grip regularly. I also finally got Nautilus working well without Gnome running, but I think I've used it twice (long live Eterm!) I'm really looking forward to Beagle and more use of hal/dbus, but I'm not sure I'm liking the heavy use of Mono that's in the future.
I've gone back and forth between Fluxbox-devel, Enlightenment, Blackbox w/ Devil's Pie, and FVWM2; but nothing has a better window memory than E16, and the window edge attraction is implemented perfectly. I'm using E16.8 from CVS right now, the new window handling code fixes a lot of glitches, but unfortunately shading is still a little slow.
There are a few great new features in E16.8 too. Like you can set windows to skip the window lists, and remember it. There's a new fullscreen setting in addition to maximize, which finally makes terminals maximize cleanly. And x.org transparency and shadow options are everywhere, though I haven't used them.
A lot of people seem to forget about E16 with all the talk about E17, but DR16 has matured greatly in the last few releases. And it runs well on my P3 800!