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KDE vs GNOME vs XFCE Desktop
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Over many years, many people spent a long time with Linux desktop using either KDE or GNOME. These two environments have grown through the previous years and each of these desktops continued to expand their current user-base. For example, sleeper desktop environment has been XFCE as XFCE offers more robustness than LXDE that lacks much of XFCE’s polish in the default configuration. The XFCE provides all benefits which users enjoyed in the GNOME 2, but with some lightweight experiences which made it a hit on the older computers.
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### The Desktop Theming ###
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After the user has fresh installation, the XFCE will be a bit boring, which lacks some certain visual attractiveness to it. So, don’t misunderstand my words here, the XFCE is still having nice looking desktop, but it may be like vanilla in users’ eyes as well as most people who are new to the XFCE desktop environment. The good news here is that while installing new theme to the XFCE, it is a reasonably easy process as you can easily find the right XFCE theme which appeals to you, after that, you can extract that theme to the proper directory. From this point, the XFCE comes with an important tool located under the Appearance for helping the user to select the chosen theme easily throughout the Graphical User Interface (GUID). There’re no other tools that might be required here, and if the user follows the above directions, it will be a bit simple for everyone who is caring to have a try.
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On the GNOME desktop, the user should follow the similar above approach. The main key difference for this point is that users have to download and then install GNOME Tweak Tool before proceeding with anything. It does not have any huge barriers under any means, but it is simple valid oversight when the user consider that the XFCE does not require any tweak tool in order for installing and activating the new desktop themes. By being under the GNOME, and especially after installing that Tweak tool which is mentioned above, you will need to go ahead and also to make sure that you have the extension of User Themes installed.
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The same as with the XFCE, the user will want to search for, and then download the theme which most appeals personally to him. Then, user can revisit to the GNOME Tweak tool, and click on the Appearance option on left side of that Tweak tool. Then, the user can simply look at the bottom of the page and click on file browse button to right of the Shell Theme. User then can browse to the zipped folder, and click open. In case if this process was successfully done, the user will see an alert that tell him that it was installed without any problems. From this point, user can simply use the pull down menu in order for selecting the theme he wants to use. The same as with the XFCE, process of theme activation is very easy, however, a need to download the non-included application for using a new theme will leave much to be desired.
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Finally, there is the process of the KDE desktop theming. The same as with XFCE, there is no need at all to install any extra tools for making it work. This is one area where there is a feeling that the XFCE has to make the KDE the winner. Not only the installing themes in the KDE is accomplished entirely within the Graphical User Interface, but it’s also even possible to click on (Get New Themes) button and user will be able to locate, view, and also install the new themes automatically.
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However, it should be noted that the KDE is a bit more robust desktop environment comparing to the XFCE. Therefore, it is a bit reasonable now to see why such extra functionalities could be missing from the desktops which are mainly designed to be minimalist. So, we all have to give the KDE props for such outstanding functionality.
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### MATE is not Lightweight Desktop ###
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Before continuing with the comparison between the XFCE, the GNOME 3 and the KDE, it should be clear for experts that we can’t touch the MATE desktop as an option in the comparison. MATE can be considered as the GNOME 2 desktop’s next incarnation, but it’s not mainly marketed to be a lightweight or fast desktop. But instead of that, its primary goal is to be more traditional and comfortable desktop environment where the users can feel right at their home to use it.
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On the other hand, the XFCE comes with a completely other goal set. The XFCE offers its users a more lightweight and yet still visually appealing desktop experience. Then, for everyone who points out that MATE is a lightweight desktop too, it isn’t really targeting that lightweight desktop crowd. Both options may be dressed up for looking quite attractive with the proper theme installed.
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### The Navigation of Desktop ###
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The XFCE honestly offers an obvious navigation which is out of the box. Anyone who is used to the traditional Windows or the GNOME 2/MATE desktop experience will be going to have the ability to navigate around the new XFCE installation without any kind of help. Straight away, adding the applets to panel is still very obvious. The same as with locating installed applications, just use the launcher and simply click on any desired application. With an exception of LXDE and MATE, there is no other desktop that can make the navigation that simple. What can be even better is that fact which the control panel is very easy to use, that is a really big benefit to everyone who is new to the desktop environment. If the user prefer older methods to use his desktop, then GNOME is not an option. With the hot corners as well as the no minimize button, plus the other application layout method, it’ll take the most newcomers getting easily used to it.
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If the user is coming from, as an example, Windows environment, then he is going to be put off by the inability to add applets to the top of his workspace simply with just a mere right-click. Just instead of this, it can be handled by using extensions. Installing extensions in the GNOME is granted and is a brain-dead easy, based on the easy to use (on/off) toggle switches located on the extensions page of the GNOME. Users have to know, sadly, to actually visit that page to enjoy this functionality.
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On the other side, the GNOME is sharing its desire for providing a straight forward and an easy to use control panel, which many of you may think that it is not be a big deal, but it is really something that I by myself find commendable and worth to be mentioned. The KDE offers its users a bit more traditional desktop experience, throughout familiar launchers as well as the ability for getting to the software in more familiar way if they are coming from Windows desktop. The process of adding widgets or applets to the KDE desktop is an easy matter of just right-clicking on the bottom of the desktop. Only the problem with the KDE’s approach is to be that, as many things KDE, the feature which users are actually looking for are hidden. The KDE users might berate my opinion for this, but I still stand by my statement.
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In order for adding a Widget, just right-click on “my panel”, just to see the panel options, but not as an immediate method to install Widgets. You will not actually see the Add Widgets until you select the Panel Options, then the Add Widgets. This not a big deal to me, but later for some users, it becomes unnecessary tidbit of confusion. To make things here more convoluted, after the users manage to locate Widgets area they discover later a brand new term called “Activities”. It is in the same area as the Widgets, yet it is somehow in its own area as to what it does.
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Now don’t misunderstand me, the Activities feature in the KDE is totally great and actually valued. But to look at it from the usability standpoint, I think that it would be better suited in another menu option in order to not confuse the newbies. User is welcome to differ, but to test this with newbies for some extended periods of time can prove the correct over and over again. The rant against the Activities placement aside, the KDE approach to add new widgets is really great. The same as with the KDE themes, user can’t browse through and install the Widgets automatically via using the provided Graphical User Interface. It is a bit fantastic of functionality, and also it could be celebrated such way. The control panel of the KDE is not as easy as the user might like it to be, yet it is a bit clear that this’s something that they are still working on.
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### So, the XFCE is the best desktop, right? ###
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I, by myself, actually run GNOME, KDE, and XFCE on my computers in my office and home. I also have some older machines with OpenBox and LXDE too. Each desktop experience can offer something that is a bit useful to me and may help me to use each machine as I see that it is fit. For me, I have a soft spot in my heart for the XFCE as it is one of the desktop environments which I stuck with for years. But in this article, I’m just writing it on my daily use computer which is in fact, GNOME.
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The main idea here is that I still feel that the XFCE provides a bit better user experience for users who are looking for stable, traditional, and easy to understand desktop environment. You are also welcome to share with us your opinion in the comments section.
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via: http://www.unixmen.com/kde-vs-gnome-vs-xfce-desktop/
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作者：[M.el Khamlichi][a]
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KDE，GNOME和XFCE的较量
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这么多年来，很多人一直都在他们的linux桌面端使用KDE或者GNOME桌面环境。这两个桌面环境经过多年的发展之后仍然在继续增加他们的用户基数。然而，在轻量级桌面环境下，XFCE一举成为了最受欢迎的桌面环境，相较于LXDE缺少的优美视觉效果，默认配置下的XFCE就可以在这方面打败前者。XFCE提供了用户能在GNOME2下使用的所有功能特性。但是，必须承认，在一些太老的计算机上，它的轻量级的特性并不能得到很好的效果。
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### 桌面主题定制 ###
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用户完成安装之后，XFCE看起来可能会有一点无聊，因为它在视觉上还缺少一些吸引力。但是，请不要误解我的话，XFCE仍然拥有漂亮的桌面，可能看起来像是用户眼中的香草，正如大多数刚刚接触XFCE桌面环境的人。好消息是当我们给XFCE安装新的主题的时候，这会是一个十分容易的过程，因为你能够快速的找到你喜欢的XFCE主题，之后，你可以将它解压到一个合适的目录中。从这一点上来说，XFCE自带的一个重要的图形界面工具可以帮助用户更加容易的选中你已经选好的主题，这可能是目前在XFCE上最好用的工具了。如果用户按照上面的指示去做的话，对于任何想要尝试使用XFCE的用户来说将不存在任何困难。
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在GNOME桌面上，用户也可以按照上面的方法去做。不过，其中最主要的不同点就是用户必须手动下载并安装GNOME Tweak Tool，这样才能继续你想做的事。当然，对于使用任何一种方式都不会有什么障碍，但是对于用户来说，使用XFCE安装和激活主题并不需要去额外的下载并安装任何tweak tool可能是他们无法忽略的一个优势。而在GNOME上，尤其是在用户已经下载并安装了GNOME Tweak tool之后，你仍将必须确保你已经安装了用户主题拓展。
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在XFCE一样，用户将会去搜索并下载自己喜欢的主题，然后，用户可以重新使用GNOME Tweak tool，并点击该工具界面左边的Appearance按钮，接着用户便可以简单的通过点击相应的按钮并选择自己已经下载好的主题来使用自己的主题，当一切都完成之后，用户将会看到一个告诉用户已经成功应用了主题的对话框，这样，你的主题便已经安装完成。对于这一点，用户可以简单的使用滚动条来选择他们想要的主题。和XFCE一样，主题激活的过程也是十分简单的，然而，对于因为要使用一个新的主题而下载一个不被包含的应用的需求也是需要考虑的。
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最后，就是KDE桌面主题定制的过程了。和XFCE一样，不需要去下载额外的工具来安装主题。从这点来看，让人有种XFCE必将使KDE成为最后的赢家的感觉。不仅在KDE上可以完全使用图形用户界面来安装主题，而且甚至只需要用户点击获取新主题的按钮就可以定位，查看，并且最后自动安装新的主题。
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然而，我们不应该认为KDE相比XFCE是一个更加稳定的桌面环境。因此，现在正是我们思考为什么一些额外的功能可能会从桌面环境中移除来达到最小化的目的。为此，我们都必须为拥有这样出色的功能而给予KDE更多的支持。
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在继续比较XFCE，GNOME3和KDE之前，必须对这方面的老手作一个事先说明，我们不会将MATE桌面环境加入到我们的比较中。MATE可被认为是GNOME2的另一个衍生品，但是它并没有声称是作为一款轻量级或者快捷桌面。相反，它的主要目的是成为一款更加传统和舒适的桌面环境，并使它的用户感觉就像在家里使用它一样。
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另一方面，XFCE生来就是要实现他自己的一系列使命。XFCE给它的用户提供一个更加轻量级的桌面环境，至今仍然有着吸引人的桌面视觉体验。然后，对于一些认为MATE也是一款轻量级的桌面环境的人来说，其实MATE真正的目标并不是成为一款轻量级的桌面环境。这两个选择在各自安装了一款好的主题之后看起来都会让人觉得非常具有吸引力。
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### 桌面导航 ###
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XFCE在窗口之外提供了一个显眼的导航器。任何使用过传统的windows或者GNOME 2/MATE桌面环境的用户都可以在没有任何帮助的情况下自如的使用新安装的XFCE桌面环境的导航器。紧接着，添加小程序到面板中也是很明显的。和找到已经安装的应用程序一样，直接使用启动器并点击你想要运行的应用程序图标。除了LXDE和MATE之外，还没有其他的桌面的导航器可以做到如此简单。不仅如此，更加简单的是对控制面板的使用，对于刚刚使用这个新桌面的每个用户来说这是一个非常大的好处。如果用户更喜欢通过老式的方法去使用他们的桌面，对于GNOME来说，这不是一个问题。和没有最小化按钮形成的用户关注热点一样，加上其他应用布局方法，这将使新用户更加容易习惯这个风格设计。
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如果用户来自windows桌面环境，那么这些用户将要放弃这些习惯，因为，他们将不能简单的通过鼠标右击一下就可以将一个小程序添加到他们的工作空间的顶部。与此相反，它可以通过使用拓展来实现。GNOME中的KDE拓展是可用的，并且是非常的容易，这些容易之处体现在只需要用户简单的使用位于GNOME拓展页面上的on/off开关。用户必须清楚，只能通过访问该页面才能使用这个功能。
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另一方面，GNOME正在它的外观中体现它的设计理念，即为用户提供一个直观和易用的控制面板。你可能认为那并不是什么大事，但是，在我看来，它确实是我认为值得称赞并且有必要被提及的方面。KDE提供给它的用户大量传统的桌面使用体验，并通过提供相似的启动器和一种更加类似的获取软件的方式的能力来迎合来自windows的用户。添加小图标或者小程序到KDE桌面是件非常简单的事情，只需要在桌面的底部右击即可。只有在KDE的使用中才会存在的的问题，对于KDE用户寻找的很多KDE的特性实际上都是隐藏的。KDE的用户可能会指责这我的观点，但我仍然坚持我的说法。
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为了增加小部件，仅仅在我的面板上右击就可以看见面板选项，但是并不是安装小部件的一个快速的方法。通常在你选择面板选项之前你都不会看到添加的小部件，然后，就添加小部件吧。这对我来说不是个问题，但是后来对于一些用户来说，它变成了不必要的困惑。而使事情变得更加复杂,用户管理定位部件区域后，他们后来发现一种称为“Activities”的品牌新术语。在同一地区的小部件,但它是在自己的领域是什么。
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现在请不要误解我，KDE中的活动特性是很不错的，也是很有价值的，但是从可用性的角度看，为了不让新手感到困惑，它更加适合于应用在另一个目录选项。欢迎来自用户的分歧，,但为了测试这个新手对一些长时间的可以一遍又一遍的证明它是正确的。责骂放在一边,KDE添加新部件的方法的确很棒。与KDE的主题一样,用户不能通过使用提供的图形用户界面浏览和自动安装部件。这是一个神奇的功能,也可以是这样的方式去庆祝。KDE的控制面板可能和用户希望的样子不一样，它不是足够的简单。但是有一点很清楚，这将是他们致力于改进的地方。
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### 因此，XFCE是最好的桌面环境，对吗？ ###
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我在我的计算机上使用GNOME，KDE，并在我的办公室和家里的电脑上使用Xfce。我也有一些老机器在使用Openbox和LXDE。每一个使用桌面的经验都可以给我提供一些有用的东西，可以帮助我使用每台机器，因为我认为它是合适的。对我来说，在我的心里有一个柔软的地方，因为Xfce作为一个桌面环境，我坚持使用了很多年。但在这篇文章中，我只是在写我使用电脑的日常，事实上，它是GNOME。
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这篇文章的主要思想是我还是觉得Xfce能提供好一点的用户体验，对于那些正在寻找稳定的、传统的、容易理解的桌面环境的用户来说，XFCE是理想的。欢迎您在评论部分和我们分享你的意见。
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