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There has been a lot of work done on DEs since this page was concocted. Things which were true two releases ago may not be the case w/ the current release. Are there identified experts/leaders in the various project who are editing this page? If not, are there current editors who can invite project leaders (if you have to use a press-gang it might be OK given the importance of this topic, just don't hit them too hard over the head) from at least the major desktop environments it might be very helpful.
Would it be considered acceptable to Wikipedia to have wiki content (at lot use Wikimedia so a little tiny script might do the trick) from the projects mirrored in Wikipedia? I don't think that the entire KDE user manual be included in Wikipedia, but summary of features would be very helpful. Who knows, maybe KDE, GNOME, LXQt, Xfce, and a few others could agree to use a common set of features to report...
Some pressing things which need to be fixed include:
Assuming someone will make an entry for EDE, wouldn't it be best to leave the external links on the individual desktop environment entries? I think Gnome and KDE already have links off their page, and adding redundant links across multiple articles makes keeping the links up-to-date harder.
According to my knowledge FluxBox and BlackBox are not DEs but rather WMs. Do they belong on the list? -- DNAdk 3/8-06
//All windows managers shall be moved to a separate page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.247.186.212 ( talk) 18:59, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
I suggest we should remove the images of desktop environments, they look all the same and they are not interesting. A drawing that shows the elements of a desktop environment as discussed in the article could be a better choice. -- TuukkaH 07:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
The most recent addition to this page is a link to a very short opinion about desktop environments... it just lacks substance to be a relevant reference here. Rather than just do it myself, I propose we remove the reference to http://www.evilbitz.com/2006/10/22/windows-customization-needs-help/ -- Matthew K
The articles Desktop_metaphor and Paper_paradigm should probably be moved here as an introductory section. Dragice 06:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
SimpleKDE?
http://www.simplekde.org/node/7/default.htm
AntiRight?
http://www.nongnu.org/antiright/ --
Writtenonsand 00:53, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Would it be appropriate to mention that some DEs provide clipboard functionality? - dcljr ( talk) 05:07, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The Windows and Mac OS desktop environments are easily the most used desktop environments in the world, being used by more people then the X Window System. It is then strange that first Windows and Mac OS don't get their own paragraphs and second that what they do have is so small and brief. The majority of the page is easily dedicated to the X Window System and environments which use it. I think there should be more information about the Windows and Mac OS desktop environments, which also link to the more complete articles about them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DiablosDevil ( talk • contribs) 14:07, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
I was just looking at Shell (computing). Can a Desktop Environment be accurately described as a graphical shell? Karl Dickman talk 18:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Related to the preceding: buried in the first couple of paras are a few words about CLI. Perhaps either (1) the CLI matter should be excised on the grounds that it's OT in this article; or (2) putative evolution of GUI from CLI can be mentioned ever so briefly in the first para, then forgotten. - Pete142 10:54, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
In the first paragraph, is the word "-packed" or "-backed"? - KitchM ( talk) 03:57, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
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This article links to "Comparison of X Window System desktop environments" no fewer than four times, at least half of which serve no useful purpose to the article. (by which I mean being located in an almost identically named section just before the Gallery that is otherwise completely empty, and being linked to yet again under "Other articles".) I propose that these two occurrences be removed, which I would be happy to do if no one objects. 1980fast ( talk) 06:35, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
Title says it all, it's just GNOME 3 with the Arc Menu and Dock to Panel extensions pre-installed. All that's new is the themes, the Browser Manager, and the upcoming (as of April 2019) Zorin Connect software, which allows for phone syncing or something. I propose that it be removed from the section with examples of DE's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C46:6180:5600:11D3:1ED6:CD0A:B5EC ( talk) 22:42, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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