default desktop layout To: xfce at xfce.org

[Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:43:04 +0200
Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Sergey Manucharian
> <sergeym at rmico.com>wrote:
> 
> > Initially when I've switched to XFCE several years ago the main
> > reason for me was namely this - CDE look and functionality.
> 
> Right, but if I tell you right now you can easily have this same look
> in GNOME, would you switch? No, Xfce has other compelling features.

Solid argument, that.

> *HOWEVER*, the default layout should fit in with the developer's
> vision. If "the FOSS CDE-like DE Olivier originally had in mind" is
> it, then that's what it should be. If you look at, say, Xubuntu,
> whose goal it is more to create a newbie-/user-friendly desktop, then
> a layout like Xubuntu's is more fitting.
> 
> So IMHO there's really no argument here anymore for a different
> layout.

This is true as evidenced from the fact that the discussion here has
yielded little consensus as to layout. And as I said, the important
thing for a desktop environment is that it should be easy to make it
look as you would want to - not necessarily to do so by default.
Also, I find that the present layout gives a good impression of what I
CAN do.

Yours,
Morten
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