What makes Xfce so good?

[John Pettigrew]

In a previous message, Chris Brault <groundhog3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And it's capability to run all my favorite software closes the deal.

I keep hearing this kind of thing, but is there any desktop environment that
*doesn't* let you run arbitrary apps, whether they're based on KDE/Qt,
Gnome/gtk, tk, motif or whatever? (Not applets, though - they are by and
large unique to a particular environment.)

John
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