Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Jun 2009 14:10 UTC, submitted by TuxJournal.net
We're all pretty much versed in the worlds of GNOME, KDE, and to a lesser degree, Xfce, and while there are lots of alternatives, none of the smaller ones really seem to gain much traction beyond their fans. An exception is LXDE, a small and resource efficient desktop environment.
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RE: Anyone else remember when...
by Isolationist on Wed 24th Jun 2009 14:44
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Member since:2006-05-28
XFCE was "small and resource efficient"?
XFCE is still small and resource efficient in IMHO, particularly in comparision to the other DEs like Gnome and KDE.
It certainly starts up fast and provides a responsive desktop that doesn't consume too much in the way of memory and cpu power. Also, the source code is fairly small, and doesn't have too many dependencies so is easy to compile.
I think some people mistakenly think XFCE is slow, without realising they are loading the Gnome or KDE libs during the startup as part of their restored session.
RE: Anyone else remember when...
by Adurbe on Wed 24th Jun 2009 15:44
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RE[2]: Anyone else remember when...
by Doc Pain on Wed 24th Jun 2009 18:09
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Member since:2006-10-08
I remember when it was basically a mimic of CDE :-)
This was the times of XFCE 3. In fact, you could run a quite functional and easy to use desktop system using XFCE 3, of course while adding other lightweight applications (at this time), such as mplayer, Opera, XMMS, OpenOffice 1, xpdf and others.
History: I had to support customers who wanted "CDE like on the Sun", so I took some time and configured a XFCE 3 system for them. "Wow! How could you port CDE to this x86 machine?" :-)
RE[2]: Anyone else remember when...
by joekiser on Wed 24th Jun 2009 18:30
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Member since:2005-06-30
XFCE can still be set up to work like CDE...in fact, that's the setup I'm running now. Delete the top panel, change the bottom panel's size to 48 pixels and center it, set the desktop to show minimized icons, and it will show the application menu on a right-click. I find this is most efficient, since I can have my most frequently used applications in the launcher, and anything else I can right click to get the applications menu. So the ability to emulate CDE still exists, it's just buried underneath the "Gnome emulation" default.
Right now, between the three major desktop environments, XFCE is the most usable in terms of being fast and configurable, and it's really not even close.
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2005-08-26
XFCE was "small and resource efficient"?