| Re: Re: To kick things off...
Jun 21 2011 on group Gnome-Shell, KDE or Xfce? |
There already is a desktop environment built on the enlightenment libraries; it's called "Enlightenment" and it works really well (despite being in pre-alpha for 10 years and counting - they're getting pretty close to releasing real alphas soon...). Of course you may be refering to a suite of applications built on top of EFL - that is still a little while off, though people can at least get started since they have released stable versions of the base libraries. Even now you can just use the enlightenment desktop with your favorite gnome/xfce/kde/lxde/whatever apps.
As for the whole Gnome-shell vs. KDE vs. XFCE debate, I see a lot of people switching from Gnome 2 to XFCE and LXDE because the environments are very similar and both XFCE and LXDE use GTK as the primary widget set. I personally am a KDE guy - I enjoy the flexibility and customizability and tend to spend quite a bit of time tweaking that last little setting or adjusting that last bit of chrome to make sure that my environment looks and feels just the way I want it. Gnome-shell seems interesting, but I haven't been able to try it yet (I'm using Ubuntu at work, and they haven't gotten it fully working in PCLOS yet); but I expect to have similar experience with Gnome-shell as I did with Gnome 2 when I finally got a linux box at work: I used it for a week at best before installing KDE and "returning home".
I also personally believe the QT toolkit to be far superior to GTK.
Of course I also really enjoy Enlightenment - lots of potential for a fully-customizable environment, snappy feel, usually pretty stable, and the Everything launcher has turned into a staple in my work-flow: applications, files, web searches, IM contacts, windows, etc. all at my finger-tips in a concise dialog that's as easy to navigate with the mouse as it is with the keyboard. |
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