On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:01:37 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > All GTK dependent DEs have their drawbacks. Xfce still is and will be my > DE for a while, but I'm already testing Razor-Qt. It's not that good at > the moment, but since LXDE is similar ok as Xfce is, it might be > interesting to wait for LXDE-Qt. IIUC the Razor-Qt and LXDE folks work > together on LXDE-Qt. Perhaps LXDE-Qt would be a better choice as a > default DE for Debian and some other distros.
I haven't tried the other DEs that you mentioned. From my research it seemed that XFCE was pretty close to the "look and feel" of the old GNOME 2 interface, which is what I am used to, and what "fallback mode" users of GNOME 3 are used to. As such, it seemed like a pretty good default DE for new installs to me. But I do feel strongly about one thing: the default DE should not be one which *requires* 3D acceleration support! The default DE should be one which is usable by as wide a variety of video hardware as possible. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/851228982.723785.1386281584989.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
