<story><title>Xfce 4.16</title><url>https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awiesenhofer</author><text>Wow, what a blast from the past. I always wonder though is anyone actually using themes like these as their actual daily driver?&lt;p&gt;Link to the project with Screenshots: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;grassmunk&amp;#x2F;Chicago95&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;grassmunk&amp;#x2F;Chicago95&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>refracture</author><text>Chicago95 can take that a step further if you like. I&amp;#x27;m running KDE lately too (Slackware-current finally got KDE5 recently so I&amp;#x27;m trying it out), but XFCE is the old trusty default for me.</text></item><item><author>cies</author><text>Feels like Win98SE to me (that&amp;#x27;s a compliment). Love it for that, though back to KDE for my daily driver.</text></item><item><author>spaniard89277</author><text>I agree, XFCE is there when you need it. No weird experiments, always consistent.</text></item><item><author>Kototama</author><text>Me too but I can tell you why.&lt;p&gt;- Coherency: the way it works and is presented does not change much over the years. It&amp;#x27;s important for me. I don&amp;#x27;t want to adapt everytime a designer thinks he has a good idea.&lt;p&gt;- Simplicity: it just works and is well configured out of the box&lt;p&gt;- Efficiency: not the lightest Desktop Manager in the market but it is light enough so it won&amp;#x27;t eat resources for nothing&lt;p&gt;- Right level of complexity: there is enough to configure it to adapt it to your needs but not too much to make it a mess. Take the xfce console for example: you can rename tabs, move them and search text in them. Last time I check these features were not available in Gnome Terminal. But at the same time I don&amp;#x27;t want much more than that.&lt;p&gt;Coherency is really important for me: Xfce has been there when Gnome &amp;#x2F; Unity &amp;#x2F; Gnome 3 &amp;#x2F; Mate &amp;#x2F; Cinnamon were confusing me by offering all the same but not really the same.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I wrote &amp;quot;consistency&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;coherency&amp;quot; but I guess the right term is coherency in this context.</text></item><item><author>m8s</author><text>This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just &amp;quot;feels like home&amp;quot;. Thank you to everyone who contributed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_lffv</author><text>My grandmother&amp;#x27;s computer is an old Debian box with nothing more than `ly` (as a DM), xfce, Chicago95, and Firefox. She loves it, though I made a ton of tweaks here and there to make it easier for her to use (specifically a ton of website launchers on her desktop). She got lost in regards to how to use her computer back in the XP&amp;gt;8 transition so it was great to be able to bring her back to that style of desktop and have the system be easier to fix than Windows 8 or 10.</text></comment>
<story><title>Xfce 4.16</title><url>https://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awiesenhofer</author><text>Wow, what a blast from the past. I always wonder though is anyone actually using themes like these as their actual daily driver?&lt;p&gt;Link to the project with Screenshots: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;grassmunk&amp;#x2F;Chicago95&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;grassmunk&amp;#x2F;Chicago95&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>refracture</author><text>Chicago95 can take that a step further if you like. I&amp;#x27;m running KDE lately too (Slackware-current finally got KDE5 recently so I&amp;#x27;m trying it out), but XFCE is the old trusty default for me.</text></item><item><author>cies</author><text>Feels like Win98SE to me (that&amp;#x27;s a compliment). Love it for that, though back to KDE for my daily driver.</text></item><item><author>spaniard89277</author><text>I agree, XFCE is there when you need it. No weird experiments, always consistent.</text></item><item><author>Kototama</author><text>Me too but I can tell you why.&lt;p&gt;- Coherency: the way it works and is presented does not change much over the years. It&amp;#x27;s important for me. I don&amp;#x27;t want to adapt everytime a designer thinks he has a good idea.&lt;p&gt;- Simplicity: it just works and is well configured out of the box&lt;p&gt;- Efficiency: not the lightest Desktop Manager in the market but it is light enough so it won&amp;#x27;t eat resources for nothing&lt;p&gt;- Right level of complexity: there is enough to configure it to adapt it to your needs but not too much to make it a mess. Take the xfce console for example: you can rename tabs, move them and search text in them. Last time I check these features were not available in Gnome Terminal. But at the same time I don&amp;#x27;t want much more than that.&lt;p&gt;Coherency is really important for me: Xfce has been there when Gnome &amp;#x2F; Unity &amp;#x2F; Gnome 3 &amp;#x2F; Mate &amp;#x2F; Cinnamon were confusing me by offering all the same but not really the same.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I wrote &amp;quot;consistency&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;coherency&amp;quot; but I guess the right term is coherency in this context.</text></item><item><author>m8s</author><text>This seems like a ton of work and a great achievement. XFCE, for whatever reason, is always my go to desktop environment and really just &amp;quot;feels like home&amp;quot;. Thank you to everyone who contributed.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Snortibartfast</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve used Memphis98 (similar to Chicago95) since it came out. Although just as a GTK-theme, not the entire desktop. Window manager is FVWM and taskbar&amp;#x2F;panel&amp;#x2F;session-manager is LXQt, so it&amp;#x27;s a bit of a Franken-desktop :)&lt;p&gt;For Qt-apps I use the &amp;quot;Windows&amp;quot; style so they fit together nicely.&lt;p&gt;Comparing Memphis and Chicago, there are some layout-bugs in Memphis, but I feel like it&amp;#x27;s overall a bit better balanced than Chicago.&lt;p&gt;I think all new themes are too bright and flat, Windows 9X was perfect (at least in that regard).</text></comment>