bvc Posted July 27, 2003 Report Share Posted July 27, 2003 As I said, xfce4 uses gtk, so any browser except Konq and Opera are fine, though all opera needs is qt with qt deps being kdelibs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 For a lighter setup, I would give WindowMaker a try. It's not a DE, but it's really pretty and functional as well. I'm using KDE with it configured to act like windowmaker. I can't live without using the mousewheel to scroll desktops :-) --Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vande198 Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 But if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Galeon (and probably Epiphany) depend on some gnome-specific background, e.g. Bonobo? How much would such libraries and apps bog down my system as compared to the relatively independent MozillaFirebird under XFce4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 How much would such libraries and apps bog down my system as compared to the relatively independent MozillaFirebird under XFce4?a lot if you don't have much in the way of resources, and hey, the fewer the better.....less room/chance for bugs and deps, when upgrading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted August 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 State of the project XFce 4 is under active development. It's now in the testing phase which precedes the final version release. Here is current XFce 4 development roadmap : 20 July : RC2 release 6 August : RC3 release XFce 4.0 release : When we will be satisfied with current RC :) If you were looking for informations about XFce 3, which is current stable XFce release but will become obsolete soon, you will find them on this page. Well, I'm gonna have to wait more. Was it August 3 the date they were supposed to release the final version? Seems it has changed. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted August 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 So I'm emerging XFCE4-RC2. Here is what I have to install: bash-2.05b# emerge -p /usr/portage/xfce-base/xfce4/xfce4-3.99.2.ebuild /usr/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-session/xfce4-session-0.1.1.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-3.99.2 = 294 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/libxfcegui4-3.99.2 = 427 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-3.99.2 = 315 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-3.99.2 = 418 KB [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/libgsf-1.8.1 = 254 KB [ebuild N ] gnome-base/librsvg-2.2.5 = 220 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce4-panel-3.99.2 = 1068 KB [ebuild N ] app-text/psutils-1.17 = 60 KB [ebuild N ] app-text/a2ps-4.13b-r5 = 2033 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfprint-3.99.2 = 388 KB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/dbh-1.0.15 = 498 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xffm-3.99.2 = 1139 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfwm4-3.99.2 = 717 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce-mcs-plugins-3.99.2 = 477 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-3.99.2 = 687 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfdesktop-3.99.2 = 1931 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce4-3.99.2 = 0 KB ---[ebuild N ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-0.1.1 = 636 KB I put the size (manually) to the right of the package. As you can see it shouldn't be long to compile.. almost no package with 1MB+. I'll let you know what I think about that.. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 4, 2003 Report Share Posted August 4, 2003 So how about it MottS? I'm using it in Debian and love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 4, 2003 Report Share Posted August 4, 2003 i just installed it....really like it. don't think i'll be going back to gnome anytime soon :!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted August 4, 2003 Report Share Posted August 4, 2003 it looks alright in the screenshots. I may try it, but I do use desktop icons for certain things... I did use XFce 3.x for a short while, before I settled upon Gnome... But then, I really love my current layout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted August 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2003 So how about it MottS? I'm using it in Debian and love it. Not bad. The thing is I installed Gentoo in like April and use KDE since then. So KDE suit my needs #1 with this installation with all the icons, KMail, KWrite, Konq with all my favorite etc... So I find it hard to switch to another desktop, find where everything is and configure it for my needs. Right now I'm back in KDE. Will give it another try soon. BTW, when one left click on the desktop, you can chose "Web Browser". Now Mozilla is selected. How do I change it to Firebird? But then, I really love my current layout. :mystilol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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