On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know of a good comparison source for the functionality and > usability of the various desktop environments that will be released in > f15? I think you're asking more than one or two questions here. ;-) > i.e. the main comparison between Gnome3, KDE4, LXDE and XFCE as they > work in f15. LXDE and XFCE won't change all that much, near as I saw. Gnome3 and KDE4, you've probably seen the threads on how they've been "dumbed down" (or, more accurately, re-focused towards people who aren't planning on doing all sorts of technical things with them). > A nice table of which standard programmes are set up to do things like > terminal, CD/DVD writing, browser, mail client, config settings both > for the DE and the system, as well as the display etc. I've often wished for such information. Particularly, I'd like a complete list of the apps they include with the custom spins. The media and security spins, in particular, would profit from not having to read through a yum listing of packages and a recursive diff against /etc/* . > Also a comparison of launcher setup and capability, wireless and > network icon and settings, virtualisation launchers and managers, pdf > viewers etc. I think this is what is called productizing the distro. I think it takes more resources in Q/A and documentation than Fedora currently has, which will probably lead to the answer, "Are you volunteering?" (To which I wish I had time to say, "Sure!") However, I'm sure there are partial lists available around.Wish I could be of more help, but I'm still fighting with grub2 from Debian not chaining to my Fedora installs. Wasting more time looking for perfection from that than I would to just do update-grub in Debian every time I see I've updated a Fedora kernel. But it's helping me understand grub. (I think.) Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
