It may not be about having an integrated desktop or manpower or even comparing with the many features of other desktop environment. Maybe it would be better to have a specific objective and then use that for marketing and for responding to questions. I'd suggest that the objective to be "good performance on slow hardware and small memory environments". Even that matches the name, the current description, and the original representations: "simple", "fast", "lightweight", "resource-careful", "low memory usage", "suitable for older machines ... or ... restricted environments."
It would be nice if LXDE didn't try to be as featureful as the competition if it will become as slow or inefficient as they are. Even some studies have shown that the smaller XFCE to be actually more a resource hog than GNOME. (Note I have not researched that myself or checked if it is still true.) It may be good for the core LXDE developers (or even survey much of audience) to define the limited hardware goals periodically (maybe every two years re-evaluate it) and then provide some real tests to prove that the system is practical with those restrictions. (For example: maybe 500 MHz processor with 256MB memory.) Whenever new features are suggested compare the results with the requirements. If the "lightweight" system continues to be bloated it will just become like the rest and may not have any distinguishing purpose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
