On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Neil Jansen njansen1@gmail.com wrote:
To lkcl's original quote "[TDE] is strategically quite important as it's one of the remaining comprehensive desktop environments that is also light-weight and relevant.", i3 and xmonad are more lightweight, and are more relevant to the sort of culture to which this mailing list is centered around.
A tilling window manager is just that, a window manager. It manages windows, resizes etc. A desktop environment is a complete set of tools including applications, applets, utilities, a window manager etc. Most of the applications we are using today with any kind of setup we run are part of some DE, with some notable exceptions like transmission. But that's beyond the point, TDE seems to be an interesting project( btw you can e.g. run i3 as the window manager in kde replacing kwin with some pretty sweet integration if you really want).