DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: UI update

wow. dont you think its time for a UI update? I really assumed this was coming with 2.0. Im still surprised that XFCE hasnt been used in this project...even an update of fluxbox would be nice (last update was in 0.51). Notice the much-improved tabs in the screenshot. With XFCE, you can still have lots of easy access icons without uglifying the desktop.

JMO , of course.

It mainly all comes down to fitting in 50mb. Since DSL is now using JWM as a secondary WM I'm guessing that's the direction the Devs will move.

I think this is the first screenshot I've seen with XFCE completely integrated into DSL with menus and such, nice work!

Chris

From my understanding, we will not be moving to using JWM as the default (ever), nor will we be putting in unneeded fluff, like XFCE.

The current version of Fluxbox we use is small, relatively bug-free, and does what we want - managing windows, and looking good doing it. The newer versions of Fluxbox have a significant size increase for no real added functionality.

Even if a window manager change comes sometime in the future, it will be a change to something with an even smaller footprint, not larger.

-J.P.

I wonder if you know the total amount of space used by flux? This xfce package is not very big..
but hey, DSL is an awesome project, and is fine as it is. I was just a little disappointed that 2.0 didnt have any radical change in X appearance.

Total amount of space used by fluxbox, uncompressed, in DSL is 720k.
This includes the program, configuration files, styles, and background images.
That's a little more than half the size of the latest development fluxbox without any images or styles.

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