The XFCE team seems to be more and more «tightly connected» to a specific distro. This is weird, given that the unnamed distro implements some custom hacks that weren't accepted upstream, allegedly because they would only work under Linux and when some dependencies are satisfied.

Well, I don't care anymore. XFCE is available everywhere, which would made me less dependent of a specific distro (things are not that simple, but let's put them this way). Oh my, but Thunar is missing some functionality only offered by Nautilus or Konqueror... Still, I am tempted to get rid of this dependency of GNOME by a move to XFCE, if possible, especially since I see the danger of Mono getting closer. So far, I am able to remove Mono if it's installed by default, but tomorrow?

Even under XFCE, I will need to use some GNOME-based applications and some KDE3-based applications. This means, at least the base libraries for the two desktop environments should be available and installed.

OK, but unless I need to start such an application, I want to have a faster system, so I would only run XFCE's native applications & goodies, plus some GTK+ and Qt-based software, right?

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