From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 16:48:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms4.rit.edu (vms4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0607737B404 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sonic.rit.edu ([24.169.199.185]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KGESAD668IH12ZN5@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:48:38 EDT Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:46:13 -0400 From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: GUI's In-reply-to: <001601c1e0b5$f85c5e70$6800a8c0@rafter> X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: Daniel Blankensteiner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020410193715.021f1460@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:34 PM 4/10/02 +0200, Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: >Hi > >I want to try out all the GUI's for FreeBSD (4.4), so will anyone name >them all? >Gnome, Kde.......... Dan, An interesting page addressing this can be found here: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ It's less of a review page than simply an overview of the various window managers and desktop environments that are available. It provides some basic information about them and most even have screenshots, so you can get an idea as to how each of them is organized and designed. By my count there are over 60 window managers on this list, some of which are now defunct. Taste in window managers and desktops is something that is HIGHLY individualized. Gnome and KDE are probably the two most popular, but that doesn't mean they're "the best." The one you choose depends on the work you do and how you want to go about doing it. >Will you also write which one you like the most? and maybe why? I'm still deciding. :) Matt -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message