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Skaperen

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How many other desktop environments ...

how many other desktop environments are there for Xfce to compete (and compare) against?  is there a list of them?

MountainDewManiac

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Re: How many other desktop environments ...

This webpage lists a bunch of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
...as does this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso … vironments

It looks like some that are mentioned in the first, are not mentioned in the second (and vice versa). There are undoubtedly more that are not listed in either.

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Skaperen

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Re: How many other desktop environments ...

those 2 seem to provide an adequate list.  the things i have used in the past that i would consider to be peers of Xfce and Unity are in one or the other list, or both.  but Xfce has given me a lot of learning about desktop environments.  my next question is what is it called (instead of Desktop Environment) for the decision process involved in programming?  i know of Qt and GTK (though not much about them).  these are libraries.  is that all a programmer needs to decide on, or is there more?  i have a couple programming ideas that a GUI things that ultimately need to work at the graphical level.  what decisions do i need to make to get started developing them?

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

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Re: How many other desktop environments ...

You should definitely contribute to Xfce!

Maybe these links are informative:

What is Linux’s native GUI API?

The Linux Graphics Stack

Skaperen

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Re: How many other desktop environments ...

i do intend to contribute what i can.

today, i made a wrapper around the "scrot" (program name and package name) screen shooter to avoid the interaction to save a file.  i just got don reconfiguring all my userids to run it when PrSc is pressed.  nothing appears on the screen and you aren't even sure if it worked.  it tries 3 directories and puts the PNG file in the first one that exists.  i have not tried other screenshooter programs, yet.