XFCE is the (maybe only?) boring desktop environment that does exactly what it says on the tin and who can be trusted to make thoughtful incremental progress rather than changes for change's sake. You can't duplicate this sense of enduring without lots of time.
I mostly pair XFCE with XMonad to get some creature comforts plus automatic window tiling. I've thought about trying to patch XFWM to add automatic tiling--the one and only "power feature" I can't live without in XFCE.
I remember when XFCE was billed mainly as a CDE clone and thus got lumped in with other "nostalgia desktop recreation" projects for a lot pf folks. Since that time it's really come into its own.
I mostly pair XFCE with XMonad to get some creature comforts plus automatic window tiling. I've thought about trying to patch XFWM to add automatic tiling--the one and only "power feature" I can't live without in XFCE.
I remember when XFCE was billed mainly as a CDE clone and thus got lumped in with other "nostalgia desktop recreation" projects for a lot pf folks. Since that time it's really come into its own.