On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Paul Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Paul >> Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> XFCE seems pretty nice. It has a light feel, menus are handled, at >>>> least in the sense of the apps I had installed and were showing up in >>>> Gnome menus are there in XFCE. I don't like that it doesn't, at least >>>> out of the box on my computer, support multiple file drag & drop >>>> actions, but maybe it supports that sort of thing through cut & paste. >>>> Not sure. (Just thought of that one.) >>> >>> Multiple file drag & drop works fine for me in XFCE. I just created a >>> folder, highlighted 4 icons from my desktop, dragged them into the >>> folder and voila, there are 4 things in it. >> >> Interesting. Didn't work here for me out of the box. My Gnome desktop >> had a bunch of files on it. In XFCE I created a folder, dragged my >> mouse across 2 or more of these files. They looked selected but when I >> clicked on one of the files and started dragging it the file I clicked >> on what the only one deposited in the folder. The other files remained >> selected. >> >> I'll look around for some setting about this. Seems very basic though. >> Strange. >> >> Good to know it should work though. > > I'm using xfce 4.6.1 in case you're on a different revision than me. > > LXDE is another similar one you may want to check out. I haven't tried > it personally but it looks similar to XFCE, but perhaps even more > lightweight. I think it is a full desktop environment based around the > openbox window manager. > > Paul, I found that here drag and drop works in a folder but doesn't work on the desktop.
xfce-4.6.1 also. lxde is masked here. I might give it a try. Not that the voting makes any difference but here's an interesting site trying to answer some similar quetsions: http://xwinman.org/vote.php Just wandering around and looking at screenshots I find I like a lot of what I see in fvwm, but I'm hesitant to install it as it seems to use older glib/gtk+ libraries which means more to maintain. It's not huge so I'm emerging it to take a look. Question gets down to how does one make a decision? Not sure about any performance metrics. Look and feel is obviously a part of it. Depth of support - email (good) and forums (not so good for me). Cheers, Mark
