[ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

lukefromdc at hushmail.com lukefromdc at hushmail.com
Wed Oct 10 21:17:38 UTC 2018


The "main DE's" now are at least GNOME, Cinnamon, MATE,KDE, XFCE,and LXDE
and probably more.

On 10/10/2018 at 2:11 AM, "Jonathan Aquilina" <jaquilina at eagleeyet.net> wrote:
>
>Hi Len,
>
>Aren’t there just 3 Main DE’s. Correct me if I am wrong but aren’t 
>you talking about corner cases here? Or are you also taking into 
>consideration window managers?
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 08 Oct 2018, at 00:05, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:27:25 -0400, lukefromdc at hushmail.com 
>wrote:
>>>> Most DE's are designed not to conflict with any other DE
>>> 
>>> Yesno :D, for some more or less exceptional cases, regarding so 
>called
>>> major DEs, you and I know better :p. A "conflict" might not be 
>the right
>>> term for some issues, users could experience.
>>> 
>>> I would reduce it to switching between window mangers, never 
>does cause
>>> an issue, but switching between desktop environments not 
>necessarily
>>> does, but always could come with a pitfall.
>> 
>> The main thing is user config files which may be the same 
>filename from DE to DE or worse, one DE might expand a user config 
>file in a way another might not understand. Also, if there is a 
>studio specific login and a DE login for the same DE, whichever 
>login you use first will set user configs in the way that login 
>sets up. Most DEs have a DE specific sub directory of .config, but 
>in the case where the DE is just a modified version of another 
>DE... who knows.
>> 
>> In general most people pick the DE they want and always use it.
>> 
>> --
>> Len Ovens
>> www.ovenwerks.net
>> 
>> 
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