[ale] DEs vs pure WMs

[Charles Shapiro]

I use an older KDE (4.3.2) at home and xfce at work.  I can configure KDE
much closer to my Dream DE than I can xfce, although xfce is adequate. For
example, in KDE I can make desktop icons  launche in a single click, but in
xfce I am stuck with double-click.  Oh well, at least in the more modern
xfces I can put the launcher bar on the right side of the screen, where I
prefer it.

--CHS


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:46 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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