I used to like fluxbox, it is light weight like EvilWM but a little more user friendly.<div><br></div><div>I liked features like tabbing of applications (you can even mix them).</div><div>It has a feature called the "slit" which is a very versatile dock for applications (including monitors and in the old days a "mount app" for drives). While it wasn't for application launching it worked well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The only things that Ubuntu gave me that fluxbox on Debian didn't (without more customisation than I was prepared to invest time on):</div><div>- Resize windows from more than a small part of the corner.</div>
<div>- A collection of GUI applications for system administration (I'm aware this isn't so much a shortfall in fluxbox but an aspect of Ubuntu as a distro but it was a big decider).</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps next time I have a spare few hours I might well put Debian on my desktop and get back going with fluxbox.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was interested in enlightenment, but when I tried it previously I couldn't get into the configuration and themes seemed complicated (this was some many years ago) So I imagine (hope) that things have changed in the past 6 -10 (I'm not sure of the last time I tried it with any seriousness). <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 March 2011 14:14, Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm wondering if the best Desktop Environment would to take the EvilWM window nanager, and add the dock (except we can't call it that of Unity<div><br></div><div>Maybe forgetting the idea of a shared menu bar (it does not work with every app anyway), as something that came out of the 1980s Cira Gem Desktop (Atari ST) and has not been done again since....... (except the mac never actually managed to lose it........</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Peter</div><div><br></div>
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