Howdy, on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3) krunner equivalent is "start everything module" and resembles gnome-do i prefer to use pcmanfm/thunar than the e file manager and nice as terminology is i'm still using terminator
the big question really is why are you looking for a DE - what is offered in it that you don't already have? while i understand from the lengthy update you want all K apps or all GTK to minimise the update - i myself mix and match where i have need from my own experience a DE gives you 1. easy hotplug devices i.e. usb disks (or you can emerge dbus,polkit and udisks and add policy rules manually) 2. "session" management, i.e. you can switch users without logging out 3. bundled apps / libraries 4. "killer features" such as the K activities 5. can anyone add to this list ?
