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From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Cc: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>, freebsd@edvax.de
Subject: Re: XFCE4
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On Monday 03 November 2008 07:38:07 joeb wrote:


> Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports
> they used to build their XFCE4 desktop.

Xfce is not much more then a window manager. It does not come with a suite of 
various desktop applications like gnome and KDE. So, x11-wm/xfce4 is the 
right meta port.

Others have suggested some additional applications and gnome/kde applications 
will work with Xfce seamlessly.
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.