Hi there
Pardon my English. I'm a Danish guy
< rants may occur >
Someone here may wonder why I waste my time writing this. However, there's a good reason.
First a bit of background info:
I've been a long time and happy GNOME user, both through Ubuntu and pure Debian, until Unity and GNOME Shell destroyed that dream.
Then I've turned my head to KDE, but it felt a bit clunky and more or less got in my way instead of staying in the background and just doing what I told it to do.
LXDE is a bit too limited for my needs and XFCE seems like a half-baked cake. However, XFCE is what I chose, and using currently. But I'm still not satisfied.
Oh, and I nearly forgot Enlightenment E17. Yes I have tried it too, and in the same case as KDE, it got into my way and disturbed me.
All these discoveries combined with, in my opinion, wrong movement in the Desktop Environment world, GNOME and Unity especially (with wrong movement, I'm thinking about too much graphical bling and less efficiency in work flow throughout the desktop), has led me to think about what would be a more efficient, fast responding and lightweight desktop, which doesn't get in your way when working, doesn't take up a lot screen space, intuitive and easy to use and favoring navigation with a keyboard.
I would dare to call it a mixture of the Windows and OSX effect at some points.
Don't get it wrong, I do not intent to start a pie fight here, I just want to shed light on some the fundamental issues desktop environments available for Linux has.
Now, dear Phoronix readers, I would like to ask you kindly to chime in with ideas or missing bits you haven't seen in other desktop environments
Pardon my developer-grumpiness, but those desktop environments available on the market today, doesn't seem to follow a path where stability, speed and efficiency is prioritized high.
It shall be no secret that I'm toying with the idea of resembling a new desktop environment, where speed, stability, modularity and efficiency is the top priorities. Whether it's run on an old Pentium, an ARM SoC or a really fast Core i7
Instead of opting for a one size fits all or a size specific model while developing this project, I intend to use a crowd-source like approach where users can have their say regarding every aspect of the desktop environment.
(The view in this post, solely represents my own experiences with desktop environments. I do not expect at all that the reader can or will agree with any part of this post).
Pardon my English. I'm a Danish guy
< rants may occur >
Someone here may wonder why I waste my time writing this. However, there's a good reason.
First a bit of background info:
I've been a long time and happy GNOME user, both through Ubuntu and pure Debian, until Unity and GNOME Shell destroyed that dream.
Then I've turned my head to KDE, but it felt a bit clunky and more or less got in my way instead of staying in the background and just doing what I told it to do.
LXDE is a bit too limited for my needs and XFCE seems like a half-baked cake. However, XFCE is what I chose, and using currently. But I'm still not satisfied.
Oh, and I nearly forgot Enlightenment E17. Yes I have tried it too, and in the same case as KDE, it got into my way and disturbed me.
All these discoveries combined with, in my opinion, wrong movement in the Desktop Environment world, GNOME and Unity especially (with wrong movement, I'm thinking about too much graphical bling and less efficiency in work flow throughout the desktop), has led me to think about what would be a more efficient, fast responding and lightweight desktop, which doesn't get in your way when working, doesn't take up a lot screen space, intuitive and easy to use and favoring navigation with a keyboard.
I would dare to call it a mixture of the Windows and OSX effect at some points.
Don't get it wrong, I do not intent to start a pie fight here, I just want to shed light on some the fundamental issues desktop environments available for Linux has.
Now, dear Phoronix readers, I would like to ask you kindly to chime in with ideas or missing bits you haven't seen in other desktop environments
Pardon my developer-grumpiness, but those desktop environments available on the market today, doesn't seem to follow a path where stability, speed and efficiency is prioritized high.
It shall be no secret that I'm toying with the idea of resembling a new desktop environment, where speed, stability, modularity and efficiency is the top priorities. Whether it's run on an old Pentium, an ARM SoC or a really fast Core i7
Instead of opting for a one size fits all or a size specific model while developing this project, I intend to use a crowd-source like approach where users can have their say regarding every aspect of the desktop environment.
(The view in this post, solely represents my own experiences with desktop environments. I do not expect at all that the reader can or will agree with any part of this post).
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