[CS-FSLUG] Theory Exercise: Stable Desktop

Marco Tedaldi marco.tedaldi at gmx.ch
Wed Dec 31 16:20:08 CST 2008


Ed Hurst schrieb:
> Humor me for a moment. I write from acknowledged ignorance of the finer 
> details.
> We have developers willing to work under this restriction. With what you 
> know about various window managers and desktop environments, what would 
> you recommend our team of developers work on? Among the options would be 
> forking a current project at some "really good" release point and 
> keeping it there (say, KDE 3.1.5), resurrecting some long forgotten 
> favorite (CDE?), or adapting some ideas and building a whole new project 
> (a la Xfce).
> 
Take xfce. It's fast, stable and can be widely configured by the user. 
This means that even newer version can easily be configured to shot the 
exact same behavior as the old version did.

kruemi
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