On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > A discussion on another list made me realize I'm a little tired of > Gnome. It does what I need, mostly, but it feels sort of old and dry. > I haven't run KDE in years but I'm hesitant to build it and keep it up > to date. I really think I'd like something more minimalistic. I ran > fluxbox years ago and liked that it was small and fast but at the time > getting to apps was a hand-crafted menu editing task that I'd rather > not repeat today. > > QUESTION: Is there something small, fast but also easy to use in > terms of the environment automatically creating menus when apps are > added or removed with emerge? > > From a pure-fun standpoint something 3D might be fun, but I don't > need it and expect that my old ATI Radeon X300 card probably isn't up > to the task anyway. > > How do others choose a window manager and what do you value in your > window manager that makes you stick with it?
I use KDE4 and keep XFCE as a backup. I use KDM as login manager and it easily lets me choose which one I want. I use only XFCE on my laptop because compiling gnome or KDE is just too much work for it. I could easily use XFCE (or Gnome) as primary desktop environment and be happy, but I'm just used to KDE.
