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Hi Niki,<BR>
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looking at the screenshot on your page you're using what appears to be Adwaita with Greybird for the window, and elementary or xubuntu-icon-theme. While it looks somewhat polished and acceptable, it can look a lot better and more professional.<BR>
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It contains elements which for an eye like mine don't seem quite as polished as they could be, but yes, for the general audience it might suffice. Doesn't mean that you never heard a complaint that people automatically like everything about it. Show them more options and they will give you better feedback. After all, Linux is all about freedom.<BR>
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People using other desktop environments could answer your question, when asked why they don't use Xfce. I am most certain they have tried it at least once. While answers will vary, I am pretty sure they would all agree on design.<BR>
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Generally people often take things as they are because they are used to defaults (you can still see a lot of people preferring the panel at the bottom from Windows XP/7) and somewhat accept, at least from their experience with Microsoft Windows, that not a lot can be changed, at least not the easy way. While Xfce offers a lot of customization, there are things that would need tweaking, which is a view I share with many people, particularly in the design community.<BR>
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<B>@Simon:</B><BR>
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thanks for the reply. I shall provide screenshots for better understanding of what I meant as cosmetic improvements. It's mostly about adding some padding here and there, you'll see.<BR>
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For centring I meant being able to fix elements in the centre, e.g. window labels often have an offset despite setting the label to be shown in the centre of the window. They are influenced by window buttons, like minimize, close, maximize - the more buttons you put, the more narrow elements appear, even though you would wish for them to stay in the centre.<BR>
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Gnome has this covered, where the clock is fixed in the centre of the panel and even if tray icons collide with it, they are hidden, nothing moves from its spot.<BR>
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On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 14:32 +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
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Le 25/07/2015 12:48, Patrik Bubák a écrit :
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Now I'm not going to give you charts, but it's a fact that visually Xfce</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> is one of the least popular desktops, although I am aware it was created</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> for speed and functionality.</FONT>
I don't know where you get that information.
My company installs Xfce-based desktops for schools, town halls, SMB's,
public libraries. Nobody complained about it being ugly.
<A HREF="http://www.microlinux.fr/mled.php">http://www.microlinux.fr/mled.php</A>
Xfce is perfect as it is.
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
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