Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Sep 2007 15:16 UTC, submitted by Scott Ruecker
LXer interviews Benedikt Meurer, a developer of the Xfce project. "One of [Xfce's] advantages over KDE and GNOME is the simplicity. You can still get to know the code base in less than a week and you are able to understand the basic design decisions. This way, Xfce 4.x has still a lot of potential, while the major desktop environments are in need for a rewrite (KDE already started the rewrite, a lot of GNOME contributors/maintainers are voting for a 3.0 rewrite)."
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"But most programs I have installed (Rhythmbox, Brasero, Totem-xine) use gnome related libraries so I think I will stay with Gnome for the time being."
Using Gnome apps with Xfce4 is probably very common among Xfce users? It is easy and doesn't slow things down practically at all as both Xfce4 and Gnome are GTK based. If I remember right, doesn't Xfce4, at least in Xubuntu, even load Gnome libs automatically nowadays?
Edit: And even if it wouldn't load Gnome (or KDE) libs automatically, it is very easy to make it do so from the Xfce4 preferences.
Edited 2007-09-20 20:18