On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:29:58 +0100 al3xu5 / dotcommon <[email protected]> wrote:
> and I would like a > de that has the least dependencies but also remains stable and > "comfortable" in configuration, personalization and use... I've only had XFCE experience out of your three, and that's really only because I prefer Openbox. My install inherits a lot of simple UI and hotkeys that I've customized over the years[1] (all the way from Blackbox), but I wouldn't call it particularly easy to customize if you're looking for GUI tools outside of basic window style/colors. Regarding "stable and comfortable". They have a large user base and are mature projects, so they're stable. Devuan inherits these things from Debian. For comfortable, all DEs are, by their nature, kind of the same thing until you look at philosophy-oddities like those built around something like ratpoison.[2] Regarding dependencies, is this simply a philosophy issue or is there some reason behind this? There could be "a lot" of dependencies for one DE, but it's because the design is to shatter all the functionality into independent specialized packages, which is actually a really great thing. If you're concerned about "lightness" then that's difficult to pin down and there are a lot of poorly-backed claims about this. Lightness tends to be another philosophy issue and isn't at all important to today's computers until you get to environments with 3D windowing effects and the like. I don't think a desktop environment would have any impact on your choice of applications. I've also run without pulseaudio and most of your applications with no difficulty. (Though I'm not familiar with icc color management at all, does that matter to the desktop environment?) [1] https://github.com/spiralofhope/misc-configuration/blob/master/live/openbox/rc.xml [2] http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
