Ed Sutherland wrote:
I'm considering moving from one of the giant desktop environments
(Gnome) to a svelter window manager (blackbox or windowmaker.) I
understand some apps require only the gnome or kde toolkits, while
others require the whole kit-and-kaboodle to operate. I'm wondering if
these app categories can politely run in a window manager (that is,
using just the gnome toolkit.)
E-mail (Thunderbird)
Web (Firefox)
Office (OpenOffice)
Contacts (Rubrica)
Hi Ed, you can try XFCE: http://www.xfce.org is very very lightweight, I
use it.