Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? 357
paxcoder writes "Gnome Shell ... is different. Very much so. The fallback was inadequate. I suspect that many people, like me, turned to the alternatives. My choice was LXDE, which worked ok, until (lx-)panel broke in the unstable branch of the distro that I use. Tired of using the terminal to run stuff, I replaced the standard panel with the one from Xfce. That made me realize that we really don't need a packaged desktop environment, there are pieces ready for assembly. If you customize your graphical environment, what elements do you use? Which window manager, file manager, panel(etc.) would you recommend? Do you have a panel with a hardware usage monitors, how do you switch between workspaces? Anything cool we might not know about?"
Re:KDE. (Score:1, Funny)
Your opinion means nothing when you post it as an AC.
You tell him!. What good are valid opinions unless I have some random username to associate them with? Well said, Mr C Death. Well said.