On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:25:08AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > But neither XFCE nor KDE are window managers. They are desktop > environments. This is a common misconception among people discussing > "graphical environments" for X.
Both incorporate the functionality of WMs into them. Personoal preference
is that a "pure" WM is too barebones. I never quite understood the logic
behind requiring command line tools and text files to configure a graphical
environment.
Also calling XFCE a desktop environment is pushing it a little. It
certainly does not have the integration of KDE or GNOME and there's very
little that goes on the desktop. It has a panel/kicker (choose your idiom)
and a task switcher. Both of which can be shut off and both of which can be
added to a "pure" WM.
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