I was living on dwm for a lot of time. I love the idea of "save to Desktop"
Tiling window managers are good but not for desktop. Is painfull to change wallpaper using commands when you can do it with 2 clicks. I was against desktop environments for a long long time but then I reallised the simpliest. Computer is to make your life easier and to do your job fast. Especially when Is your computer desktop. So I decided for at least my desktop to make a little step back on my believes and put DE. Is nice, make things easier, faster and a nice GUI is not so bad at all
But. My problem is this. I really hate when a DE comes with his own apps! Must be 2 completely seperated things. I want gnome, but I hate mozilla for example. DE is DE and apps are apps. Or superkaramba, screenlets, desklets are very nice but need KDE4, Gnome2 so if you are using Xfce4 you are not going to install them unless if you want to live with thunar & nautilus, chrome & mozilla, xfce4-panel & gnome-panel witch is not something that I like. In fact I hate. I want one browser, one editor, one file manager. This is the reason that I removed gnome2. I saw to compile a lot of apps that just I do not want to use them. KDE4 have a very nice gui but is a little mess. Have to many options and make it difficult to use it. Is not about memory. I have memory. But something on KDE4 was I don't know, makes me to want to close my computer
xfce4 is that I use. Is almost that I want. Easy, fast, nice. (Some buid in options like lock the screen options or a menu editor could be nice. Is borring to create all applications and menus with text editor, to download images and give paths to have image next to the application on menu) Just I want one more step of desktop experience. I tried KDE 3.5.10. Well have nice gui, more options than xfce4 and some small silly tools like font's and characters apps but ok. I could live with them if it was not going to die
LXDE I used it before some time. Not bad but there is Xfce4 witch is giving better desktop experience. Gnome3 is something that I guess we will see on ports but for now gnome3 can built on FreeBSD but not sure how stable can be and how much apps will come toguether. Just I try to find an alternative solution. If I will not, I will be back on xfce4 witch probably Is that I am looking for. I feel like I don't know what I want from my life
Maybe is true
