The "main DE's" now are at least GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE,KDE, XFCE,and LXDE and probably more.
On 10/10/2018 at 2:11 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi Len, > >Aren’t there just 3 Main DE’s. Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t >you talking about corner cases here? Or are you also taking into >consideration window managers? > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On 08 Oct 2018, at 00:05, Len Ovens <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:27:25 -0400, [email protected] >wrote: >>>> Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE >>> >>> Yesno :D, for some more or less exceptional cases, regarding so >called >>> major DEs, you and I know better :p. A "conflict" might not be >the right >>> term for some issues, users could experience. >>> >>> I would reduce it to switching between window mangers, never >does cause >>> an issue, but switching between desktop environments not >necessarily >>> does, but always could come with a pitfall. >> >> The main thing is user config files which may be the same >filename from DE to DE or worse, one DE might expand a user config >file in a way another might not understand. Also, if there is a >studio specific login and a DE login for the same DE, whichever >login you use first will set user configs in the way that login >sets up. Most DEs have a DE specific sub directory of .config, but >in the case where the DE is just a modified version of another >DE... who knows. >> >> In general most people pick the DE they want and always use it. >> >> -- >> Len Ovens >> www.ovenwerks.net >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > > >-- >ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
