On Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:18:44 PM Chris Knadle wrote:
Today I caught a story about the issues GNOME 3 is facing
[1], including concerns and issues that GNOME developers
are not listening to from users. [Some of the comments to
the story are a worthwhile read.]
I followed a few links [2] that eventually led me to find two
surveys done by linuxquestions.org for Desktop
Environments [3] and Window Managers [4] to find the
most popular of both for 2011 (voting ended Feb 9th
2012). I've reordered the list in terms of popularity, and
this is the result:
Desktop Environments
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KDE 207 33.01%
Xfce 173 27.59%
Gnome Shell 120 19.14%
LXDE 44 7.02%
Unity 29 4.63%
MATE 21 3.35%
Cinnamon 16 2.55%
Trinity-DE 7 1.12%
Razor-qt 7 1.12%
rox 3 0.48%
-------------------------------
Total: 627 votes
Window Managers
---------------
Openbox 73 15.90%
Compiz 72 15.69%
Fluxbox 62 13.51%
KWin 57 12.42%
xfwm4 47 10.24%
Enlightenment 43 9.37%
FVWM 16 3.49%
MetaCity 15 3.27%
IceWM 11 2.40%
Mutter 11 2.40%
awesome 10 2.18%
xmonad 9 1.96%
dwm 8 1.74%
Window Maker 7 1.53%
i3 6 1.31%
Ratpoison 5 1.09%
JWM 5 1.09%
Sawfish 2 0.44%
Marco 0 0%
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Total: 459 votes
What is notable is that in the survey for 2010 (the year
before) for Desktop Environments [5], Gnome had 45% of
the vote, KDE was the same at 33%, and Xfce was at
~15%.
IIUC, the default window manager for KDE is KWIN and the default
window manager for XFCE is XFWM. So it looks like a lot of the
respondents to these surveys have changed their default window
manager. This seems to me unusual. Why would so many be changing
their window manager?
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