XFCE is making rapid improvements lately. I'm definitely giving it a shot once Feisty is stable in April.
XFCE is making rapid improvements lately. I'm definitely giving it a shot once Feisty is stable in April.
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This is probably my *only* criticism of Xfce, I love how in gnome you can just drag an app from the menu to a panel to get a shortcut to that, wheras in Xfce you have to create the shortcut manually, giving it the path, the path to the icon etc etc.
If anyone knows of an app or something that I've missed that gives you greater drag and drop in Xfce that would be awesome
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I use AppFinder and the add a launcher dialog. You can drag from AppFinder to the launcher (if it's in the AppFinder).
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There are people who are using Engage in Xfce. I haven't tried it yet though.
http://www.enlightenment.org/Applications/Engage/
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XFCE is pretty nice, but it lacks the "sleekness" you can get in gnome and in KDE, plus I have always had issues with screensavers in it
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They are both good but I feel like Xfce is a little more responsive on my 500MHz machine though I haven't gotten the transparency working right.
One setup I keep going back to is panel-less. I bind the Main Menu key to the windows key on my keyboard and the desktop list menu to my list key on the keyboard and remove all of the panels from the screen. Sometimes I would only have the 'lil icon box to pop-up when programs are opened.
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I've tried XFCE a few different times on my PII 400 Mhz computer, and I really don't see a difference in response time between Gnome or XFCE (lol both slow, but usable) I also found I was frustrated trying to customize the taskbars, and I also never have found a theme I've liked for it.
I keep trying it out from time to time just to keep on getting used to it, but I find I keep going back to Gnome or IceWM. (and even Enlightenment from time to time)
· Compaq Presario 5630 PII, 400 Mhz, 384 MB RAM: Arch with XFCE 4.6, Antix, Debian w/LDXE
· Dell Dimension 8200, P4 2.2Ghz, 1.5 Gig RAM, Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 (vrtualbox)
· Thinkpad R40, P4 M 2.0 Ghz, 1 Gig RAM, Ubuntu 10.10
Xfce and Gnome are on par IMHO.
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