16 Jan
2008
16 Jan
'08
10:23 p.m.
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Bradley Hook wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Shouldn't that be KDE and Gnome both _use_ heavy window managers? or are you saying that KDE and Gnome are window managers?
Technically, yes. But I guess what I meant to say is that kde and gnome are both heavy "desktop environments". I personally don't know anyone that uses just the window managers of either kde or gnome. With fluxbox, there really isn't anything else to it other than the window manager, so it is an extremely light desktop environment.
Fluxbox is a window manager, not a desktop environment. You can combine Fluxbox with applications to get a desktop environment, but that is very unlikely to be "lighter" than KDE or GNOME.