On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
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> Xfce is light. It's very very light. And I think it's pretty enough for my
> needs. I don't like all that brouhaha of KDE or GNOME. I want my desktop
> environment to be snappy, spartan. And that's exactly what Xfce is. I
> particularly like the ability to bind the Windows (TM) keys on my Logitech
> keyboard to the WindowList and Menu popup commands. Xfce doesn't have a
> taskbar like Windows/GNOME/KDE/etc, so without these keybindings it's
> quite difficult to have to Alt+Tab through life.
XFce has some "history" for me because In The Beginning it was nothing
more than a launch bar. And it was implemented using XForms.
In other words, it was a direct competitor for FvwmCDE which I wrote!! =)
Actually I looked at XFce, didn't like what I saw, and started coding
FvwmCDE. But I have not done any development on that since 1996. So
nowadays you can't compare the two anymore.
IMHO if I wanted a light desktop I would get fvwm-1.2.4 and that's it.
XFce honestly does not have enough features "over" fvwm-1.2.4 that I want.
binding the keys and stuff is chickenfeed -- that's what dotfiles are for.
=)
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