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torg:
I got a slightly older laptop with not too much memory and i dont want to waste ressources by running the frickin' huge Gnome oder KDE on it.
So has anyone of you had any experiences with the XFCE Desktop environment?

josiah:
It works, but it's not as lightweight as EDE (Equinox), WindowMaker, Afterstep, and so on. Granted, the more you want lightweight, the less features and integration you will get; and conversely, the more features and integration you want, the less lightweight it will be. Granted, if all you wanted was a very lightweight environment with tons of functionality, you could always use something like 5dwm, but I suspect that most people would find this to be a bit on the ugly side of things.

As a halfway between the large destop environments and the barebones window managers, Xfce does pretty well, but I tend to get annoyed by little things about it. And I don't actually think that it's very lightweight... but maybe that's because I only ever use old computers that make Gnome and KDE feel too sluggish. I don't know. Maybe I'm just rambling.

torg:
Well, i worked with Enlightenment (e16) so far, but it lacks comfort when it comes to editing menus (and i often install and remove software) and for some strange reasons the epplets arent displayed correctly. as it is a laptop that it is running on i need to know the battery status and some other stuff.
Given that KDE run pretty smooth on my 1,3 ghz / 512 mb memory desktop comp i guess XFCE will do fine on the 1 ghz / 256mb laptop.

josiah:
menu-editing comfort? wow, you need ude or fvwm, or windowmaker! at least windowmaker has a gui for it, but ude and fvwm have easy text files that can be edited.  all of them respond to the debian/ubuntu menu program to automatically update the menus, but if you have to edit a config file, i don't know of any that are easier than ude. at least in that respect... ude makes other things much less easy :)

in all seriousness, though, xfce is probably what you're looking for. i just never seem to like desktop environments in general, and xfce seems to be infected by all the sorts of things that desktop environments do that seem to annoy me.

josiah:
actually, looking at your specs, i'd just advise you to spend a little money on extra ram and just install kde/gnome (whatever you prefer). neither one seems to do particularly well on less than 512mb ram, but ram's cheap.

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