On 09/16/13 22:18, James Griffin wrote:
I need to install a Dektop Environment for my partner.
I thought about KDE or xfce, i've tried neither on OpenBSD before. Which of the
3 main main DE's (gnome, KDE, XFCE) do you feel work best on OpenBSD.
I'm currently on XFCE and it works for me.
Used both Gnome and KDE and found good things and bad things - from *my*
point-of-view.
I was happy with KDE 3.5.10 - but was missing the eye candy of newer
things, so tried Gnome 3.
Was really enjoying Gnome 3 but it got a bit sluggish on the hardware I
was using at the time, so headed for something more light-weight.
I've tried the more bare-bones ones like fvwm and cwm - bit too minimal
for my liking, but worth trying cwm (in base so nothing to install.)
So moved to XFCE and been happy there for a while. Alt-Tab works,
performance is good, enough eye-candy for me. Parole (the multi-media
app) times out on some of my DVDs, so I use mplayer for those. Picture
viewer, GIMP for graphics, thunar file manager, Firefox & Chromium,
Thunderbird, nice console, Libreoffice, etc., etc. Does everything I
need and looks pretty enough.
It is really going to be down to personal preference and your
requirements - no real short-cut to trying all three out for a few days
and see which one works for you.
I would need things like removable media mounting from within the graphical
environment, good sound support and multimedia applications.
Any advice would be helpful from those using any of these Desktop's. I thought
i'd ask on this list before installing loads of packages.
Cheers, Jamie.
