[sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting Sunday 2011-10-02

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

> I think that the search for a less memory intensive
> Desktop Environment which can handle the adaptations that users
> may require and handle multiple screens/virtual desktops
> et al is rather self-defeating.

I hope you're aware that none of those things you cite in any way
requires a DE.  For example, people running the Window Maker window
manager get all of them automatically.  (It's considered a middle-weight
WM, i.e., not as sparse and RAM-thrifty as Openbox, Fluxbox, etc., but
far from being a hog.)  

For that matter, pretty much all 'adaptations' you might be able to cite
can be easily furnished a la carte, _without_ needing a DE.  Nothing
against the DEs for people who actually want all of the functionality
they bundle and want to run all of that stuff; my point is solely that
the usual DE justifications rest squarely on a factual error.  And, in
many cases, on declining to bother thinking about what they comprise.