XFCE

Posted Mar 15, 2011 21:47 UTC (Tue) by sramkrishna (subscriber, #72628)
In reply to: XFCE by job
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Ah yes, I remember those good ol days of GNOME 1.x -> GNOME 2.0 when after slashing options and going for a "just works" mentality we had a loads of people telling us that we were just doing it wrong and it was just not the "Linux" way. At least admit that we were doing the right thing and your desktop at the end of the 2.0 series indeed "just work".

XFCE is an awesome project and I'm glad they exist. They are good people. It was my desktop of choice to run under VNC.

XFCE

Posted Mar 15, 2011 23:11 UTC (Tue) by aigarius (guest, #7329) [Link]

Gnome 2.0 I've had little problem with (maybe the removal of screensaver options, like image source), but this does look like it is rushed and nothing really works (small screen fails, large screen fails, dual screen fails, speed fails, ...). I do really hope that some sanity will prevail, just like in Gnome 2.x - many initial decisions were reversed eventually.

XFCE

Posted Mar 15, 2011 23:17 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Not really, a lot of options were re-added later. Some things never worked again and people just had to get used to them.

Mostly because competition sucked in a different way (though KDE looked pretty good up until KDE4.0). Personally, I think I'll switch to KDE once GNOME2 support starts deteriorating.