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Autor: dreamer
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Assumpte: [dyne:bolic] Dynebolic default WM
So, on IRC I was talking about this with Jaromil a bit and I'm wondering
what others' ideas are.

In previous versions dyne:bolic was always focused on running on as many
systems as possible.
Now with the latest beta showing the full OS does not even fit on a single
CD anymore, we also see a shift from the previous XFCE (which at the time
was quite novel) to a GNOME desktop.

To me both these developments seem to counter the spirit of dyne:bolic. Now
Jaromil explained that the beta is full-featured and therefor too big for a
CD and that eventually there will be an installation to add modules later.
But, on the topic of WM perhaps it's nice to discuss a bit the
possibilities.

Personally I think XFCE has grown out of it's box and is quite a big DE.
Similar to GNOME perhaps, but in a way more suitable for small children for
instance (nice big buttons and relatively easy menus).
A DE I've been looking at some time is LXDE, which is based on openbox. It
is very minimal and can be easily tweaked (theme, menu, default apps etc.)
to suit ones own needs.
It gives all the basic DE features, looks very nice and clean, has a very
small footprint on the hardware and not any intrusive integrations (unlike
other DE's like GNOME and XFCE that depend greatly on their own specific
configurations etc.).

So what are your ideas of getting a dyne-config for LXDE and use this for
the final dyne:bolic 3.0 release?
I think it would be very well suited for the distribution.

greets,
Alexander