"The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project's name is an abbreviation of 'RISC OS on X'. The ROX Desktop's performance is reminiscent of IceWM, and it's noticeably faster opening programs than GNOME or KDE. However, its speed comes at the expense of a needlessly redundant default configuration, and some users may balk at some of the assumptions its design makes about how they prefer to work."
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Member since:2006-09-21
I'll snap up the bait:
I think it will be much better if OSS folks spend more time creating one useful and polished desktop instead of 10.
There are different desktops in the OSS world because OSS developers realize that the one-size-fits-all mentality is pure nonsense.
Gnome targets people who want a clean interface with well targeted features. KDE is made for people who love having every feature at their finger-tips. Think about it for a moment: they are analogs of Macintosh and Windows. Different audience. Different needs. Different products. All four of them are also well polished and usable.
The same can be said for ROX, for the reasons I outlined in a prior post.
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Member since:2006-04-19
Well, choice is good in this case as you can hardly run KDE or Gnome with all the bells and whistles on e.g. a 64 or 128 MB RAM machine. But such machines do still exist and the ROX desktop, just like any other lightweight solution, helps the owners of such machines to continue being productive. I cannot see what should be wrong with that. 
Sure, some nice looking desktops are always welcomed, but the getting the work done efficiently is imho more important than some glassy windows and funky taskbars.
Member since:2005-07-24
News flash!
OSNews user posts flame bait and laments the fact that he sometimes gets modded down.
Film at 11...
There really should be a classification in the mod system for "-1: Worn out old flame bait ploy with even more worn out 'I'll probably getted modded down now' suffix."
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2005-07-10
that is really not so great when compared to polished desktop like Vista or OSX. I think it will be much better if OSS folks spend more time creating one useful and polished desktop instead of 10.
Waiting for the intolerant zealots to mod me down now:)