Reviewglitz.com » linux deskop environment . http://reviewglitz.com Updates for software freaks Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:10:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Can XFCE Desktop Environment,be an alternative to Gnome and Kde ? http://reviewglitz.com/2010/02/can-xfce-desktop-environment-an-alternative-to-gnome-and-kde/ http://reviewglitz.com/2010/02/can-xfce-desktop-environment-an-alternative-to-gnome-and-kde/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:15:53 +0000 admin http://reviewglitz.com/?p=1741 In the Linux world with Ubuntu dominating the market to discuss about the comparison of Desktop Managers available for Linux is of good importance . By default Ubuntu comes with gnome desktop environment and Kubuntu comes with kde as the desktop manager . Considering the case of someone who is interested in trying out something different xfce might be fun . Xfce is a new desktop environment aimed at unix like operating system , providing nice features at smaller size and resources . Xfce can be installed in many platforms like freebsd , linux , solaris , cygwin and even macos . Xfce is definitely worth a look for users , who is interested in nice look and feel without sacrificing system resources . xfce is based on gtk 2 + just like gnome . It uses xfwm window manager . As it is always better to show something than to describe it , here I present you with some screenshots .

xfce_screenshot2 xfce_screenshot3 xfce_screenshot

Also have a look at how xfce performs with compiz in Ubuntu 9.10 distribution .

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The latest available version of XFCE is XFCE 4.6 . Visit xfce website for more details .

Applications like Mousepad text editor, Xfmedia audio player, Orage Calendar and Terminal are available by default for xfce environment . Printing tasks in xfce are managed by Xfprint . Xfburn is the cd/dvd burner program available for xfce . The default media player is Xfmedia player derived from Xine movie player . Thunar is the file manager for xfce .Xfce has almost everything needed by a normal user . Xfce but doesnot offer the flashy and eye-candy appearance of kde or large amount of applications like gnome .

Considering the progress xfce made in the following years , one day xfce may replace kde and gnome from our distros .Also connsider reading the comparison of kde vs gnome .

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