I think we need a discussion

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:13:01 -0500 Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 20:34, Peter G. <pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > the most evolved being xfde and lxde.
> 
> XFDE is a nice lightweight desktop environment. LXDE on the contrary
> is user-hostile when you attempt to customize it. I've recently tried
> changing from XFDE to LXDE due to alleged lower memory footprint and
> found the user-hostile configuration and under-developed features too
> big of an annoyance. I'm going back to XFDE. LXDE lists for instance a
> "Trash can" as something in its "to do" list. How inmature is a
> desktop environment without a trash can functionality? (I just mention
> one that comes to mind, there are countless other shortcomings in LXDE
> that I ran across that are inexcusable in 2011)...

While agreeing that XFCE does a good job, I would not be so harsh on
LXDE. This project is far behind XFCE in terms of years also.
Additionally, it all depends on who volunteers to help. It would be
better if the LXDE developers were a bit more responsive, and if
documentation were more useful to people wanting to develop, but they
are doing everybody a favor, and they can do so much, that is it. 

Having said that, the Fedora LXDE maintainer/packager (Christoph
Wickert) is a great help, and usually responds within hours. Try the
Fedora LXDE mailing list at lxde at lists.fedoraproject.org.

Does a linux user really care for a Trash can? Whatever happened to 
rm -rf. Sure, and trusty, and nothing gets left behind....

Best wishes,
Ranjan