Re: lightweight desktop: components?

["David Mohr" <damailings mcbf net>]

On Feb 19, 2008 8:18 AM, Kristian Rink <kawazu zimmer428 net> wrote:
> Am Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:33 -0700
> schrieb "David Mohr" <damailings mcbf net>:
>
> > > - desktop panel / tasklist / system tray,
> > > - desktop background setting / configuration app,
> > > - app for providing desktop icons (if any),
> > > - visual file manager?
> >
> > XFCE does all of that, and is pretty lightweight. So what's wrong with
> > that choice?
>
> Yes, I thought that as well, that's why I do use XFCE as desktop
> environment of my choice on most of my machines... However I had to
> learn that, on hardware not that powerful, the recent XFCE releases
> seem to be not that lightweight anymore, unfortunately... :(

Interesting... I must admit that I use the "lightweight" desktop on a
powerful machine, so I can't comment on that. It might be worth it to
bring that up with some more data (i.e. what exactly is your 'not that
powerful' hardware) on the xfce mailing list.

~David