XPDE, another window manager

[Charles]

Some of you already know XPDE, other may find it interesting, although a little abandoned.

XPDE is an open-source project to offer a WinXP-like window manager such as KDE or Gnome. I think it's pretty interesting although I prefer KDE, and I don't like to "clone".

Several screenshots available, such as:





:roll:

[pcbsdusr]

Looks nice (I do prefer OSX's aqua over windows). But i think if we are to evaluate other window managers we should evaluate the technical advantages first. If other window managers were to be considerated we should evaluate:

-Technology used
-capabilities
-graphical skills
-weight on the systems
-speed
-ease of development/extension as a base
-exsting tools to work with
-other parameters...

I am not an expert but i belive KDE must be our best bet right now. Am i wrong?

[sblevin]

I am not an expert but i belive KDE must be our best bet right now. Am i wrong?

KDE can be as light or heavy as you want. It's massively mutable, and the benefits of its' underlying architectures, I believe, are too great to leave behind.

It's just a personal opinion, but with the release of KDE 4, and a possible/likely windows native implementation comming, KDE will place itself in a position to take a lead that will take other desktop environment systems years to catch up with.

Minimalistic implementaions like Black/Flux Box and the like are simply not up to the challenges of a rich desktop implementation. Yes, I have set up Fluxbox and WOW wasn't it fast. It's easy to be fast when you have little else to do but draw a window.

There will always be ports for other window managers and desktop environments, but the depth and richness of KDE, and the size and activity of its' developers will see it the strongest base to build on for years to come.

(Now watch the Gnomers flame me to a crispy, cruchy frazzle in seconds : )

[axel]

<theo>I don't know. I have never run KDE</theo>

Just kidding

[popey]

The trouble with kde is the bloat, they seem more interested in adding crap than improving the base system. It'll be interesting to see where they go in the future. The competition is improving all the time so how long they can keep their lead is open to debate.
Personally, I've already switched to Xfce on my Slackware box as it's not only compatible with gtk and kde but looks great and runs a lot faster.
http://www.imageuploading.com/ims/pi...9oCCsN&i=25162

[Charles]

I like XFCE, but when we're about to compete with desktop env like WinXP and OS X, we don't have to be scared of bloat. Most desktop computers are strong enough to handle bloat. If not, they can still run lighter Linux distros. FreeBSD + KDE is pretty fast on my computer. I still think we can have KDE to do a little diet, there are many applications that most people don't use and that come with KDE I think :roll:

[pcbsdusr]

I agree, kde really needs a diet.

edited for removal of dumbness LOL

[bhna]

I agree, kde really needs a diet.

I also think we should change to Xorg as it is the default for FreeBSD as of 5.3.

Have you read this? "New Acceleration Architecture for X.org"on OSNews today? One more reason for changing...

x.org is the default!

[pcbsdusr]

nevermind... :roll: I sometimes write faster than i think...

[youlle]

actually among BSD's XFree86 is still plausable because its license change doesnt affect BSD only GPL Licensed NIX's