silentYak » Desktop Environment http://www.silentyak.com ...a universal platform for global junk... Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:19:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 XFCE Desktop http://www.silentyak.com/2008/10/18/xfce-desktop/ http://www.silentyak.com/2008/10/18/xfce-desktop/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:36:30 +0000 RRI http://www.silentyak.com/?p=578 To cut a long story short, I’ve switched from KDE to XFCE, which is universally acknowledged as a ‘lightweight’ and easily customizable desktop environment. When I earlier switched to KDE 4.1, there were several bugs that were a constant source of irritation. Add to that the fact that applications like Amarok (which were the reason why I loved KDE) did not have the same level of features as their 3.5 version avatars, and I realized there was nothing that I really needed from KDE 4.1 anymore. I could have switched back to 3.5 of course, but I generally don’t like to rollback to an earlier version after having tasted the newer one. That’s how I ended up with XFCE.

XFCE has a nice clean look, and it is much faster too. Personally, I would happily sacrifice desktop effects for performace, so this switch worked out pretty well for me. Of course, there was ‘The Terminal UTF-8 Problem’ which I will describe in detail in another post.…

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