KDE vs. GNOME session management

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:31:18PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > ...part of the Rox desktop...
> 
> Do you use the Rox desktop?

No, I use XFCE.

> I've seen a bunch of non-GNOME or KDE desktops mentioned, and some sound
> interesting, but few sound compelling enough to justify "swimming
> against the tide" - which inevitably happens when you chose a platform
> that only a small minority use. They seem like a better fit for special
> circumstances, like low-end hardware.

I use XFCE because it provides most of the advantages of GNOME,
including being based on the GTK libraries, without most of the
cruft. It generally uses less memory and gets in my way less
than GNOME does.

> One GNOME/KDE review I read mentioned an alternate desktop that had a
> name like E17 with the compelling feature that you could independently
> switch virtual desktops on each of the physical monitors attached to the
> machine. Seems like a logical way to arrange things, and I'm surprised
> both GNOME and KDE (according to the author) span virtual desktops
> across both monitors.

Enlightenment. Enlightenment was once the heaviest of all
environments, but is now on the light side. E17 is the version
that has been perpetually in development for... maybe ten years
now? It's very pretty. 

-dsr-

-- 
http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference.

You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.