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and really liking it.
Installed kde first then fluxbox, idesk for desktop icons, pretty easy once you figure out the config files.
Nice themes too.
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satanix wrote:Yeah i like XFCE aswell but it just feeels like it lacks something...maybe its just me.....KDE4 is looking good so that might be worth a try when its released
KDE 4 does look as if it's going to be good, but it's gonna be one hell of a fat baby.
Actually, KDE4 will use Qt4, which is said to be highly optimized and has better performance than Qt3. So it might be even skinnier than the current version.
Some PKGBUILDs: http://members.lycos.co.uk/sweiss3
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Any comments on the new Xfce4.4?
One significant issue I've found had to do with the Arch packaging of Thunar and not Xfce itself (see original post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=30207). Well, at least it's an issue for me. Who here can configure HAL?
The last time I tried KDE was on Suse; their defaults must not have been tested too well as I suffered some intolerable bugs, such as windows deciding to close by themselves, for the few days I actually bothered with the Suse "blackbox" environment. That was almost a year ago though.
Gnome, for me last, was on Ubuntu, which I had installed to rescue my productivity after a pacman -Syu killed my access to removable media. Didn't last long though... I like Arch's simplicity too much. Besides, even on Ubuntu I had problems with Gnome, such as with its automounting applet.
My biggest current issue with DEs is the configuration nightmare that they call freedesktop.org. I know it's a good thing (freedesktop.org), and the concept/organization is definitely necessary, but getting down to the finite details of modifying your desktop can result in editing gtkrc files, copying the same PNG and XPM images into 10 different locations (exagerating), and, well...
I did, not too long ago (shortly before the new Xfce came out) play with OpenBox (moving away from DEs...). I absolutely LOVED Openbox, particularly the ease with which I could edit its menu. But as soon as I had to consider a panel or a desktop background (I'm at the computer too many hours not to entertain myself), it quickly became a nightmare of a learning curve. Too many partial solutions and not enough complete ones, and too many different configuration means and methods.
So, for now I'm with Xfce4.4, and I must say that, comparing it to Gnome, it is a beautiful DE. I'd like to compare it to KDE, but I haven't ever run KDE long enough to be just (for the sole reason that many of the apps I run are GTK-based, such as XaraXtreme).
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