[ale] DEs vs pure WMs

[James Sumners]

It isn't an IDE (integrated development environment) but it is a DE
(desktop environment) :)

I think the primary reason to use a DE is for cohesion. Simply using a
window manager leads to a higher degree of mismatched interfaces (e.g.
program A is a Gnome program and program B is a KDE program). A
desktop environment tends to ship with all of the basic tools (e.g.
browser and terminal emulator) so that the primary tools have a
consistent interface.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Chesser.Damon
<Damon.Chesser at suntrust.com> wrote:
> Well, I use Xfce4, I think that is NOT an ide, but I don't remember.



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