On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:09:27 +0200 "Andrej N. Gritsenko" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems there are too few people in LXDE project but I'm not > sure if XFCE has a lot of developers. Hi, XFCE is much older than Lxde is, therefore it benefits from many more hours of work on it than Lxde does. I started using my own computer in 2004 (it's not that old) and XFCE already existed. It was version 1 or so. It had just a small naked panel, which could be moved by drag-drop and even be hidden out of the screen, and nothing much more. That was very light, and had almost no feature. XFCE 4 today is a rich environment, which is frankly more greedy on the resource of a machine than Lxde is. (but much less than Gnome, Gnome-shell, Unity, or Kde4 of course). When I install or upgrade a Linux box to someone else's machine, I'll install Xubuntu if the machine has 1 GB ram minimum. On the page where Xubuntu is presented, it is said to need 512 MB RAM minimum, but I think it is not comfortable for current use, because I have tried. Instead, if a machine has 512 MB ram only I'll go for Lubuntu, then I know it will be comfortable enough. For myself, any machine, low with resources or high I use a set of programs around Openbox and no desktop manager at all. I did also put this setup to some people's machines when the resources are really very low, or are average, depending to some criteria. Then sometimes they get tint2 as a panel, sometimes they get lxpanel (then I add a program for the logout button, to avoid installing lxsession just to get the logout buttons). Best, Mélodie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
