NUMOSS Week 4 - Desktop Environment

Hello.

4th Week NUMOSS

Gagah Putra Arifianto

Today’s Topics

• What is desktop environment?

• List of desktop environments

• Explanation of each

• Evolution & demonstration video

• Comparison of each environments

Desktop Environments

what’s in your screen?

whatever it is.

symbol of opennes.

the other guys

the ‘sesat’ guys

the big guys

These Are The Candidate

KDE UNITY

XFCE LXDE

AERO AQUA

Let’s see it one by one.

GNOMEGNU Network Object Model Environment

The Philosophy Behind GNOME

simplicity. usability. just work. fast.

experimentally flexible. original.

Short History of GNOME

Started as a response to KDE’s development issue by Miguel de Icaza &

Federico MenaGetting mainstream once used in Ubuntu.

GNOME In Action

GNOME In Action

GNOME In Action

GNOME In Action

Famous Distro That Use GNOME

KDEK Desktop Environment

The Philosophy Behind KDE

Make it easy to use. Beautiful. Like windows.

So easy a noob girlfriend can use it.

KDE

Short History of KDE

Founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich

Started from his frustration.

KDE

Complains that his girlfriend can’t use it.

Short History of KDE

The “K” used to stand for “Kool”

Used to be the “IT” Desktop Environment in Linux

KDE

Used in 42.000 schools in Brazil.

KDE In Action

KDE

KDE In Action

KDE

KDE In Action

KDE

KDE In Action

KDE

Famous Distro That Use KDE

KDE

UNITY by Ubuntu

“GNOME is being let down by a decision-making process that has diminish the scope of GNOME itself.”

Mark Shuttleworth

The Philosophy Behind UNITY

the usual. easy to use. user friendliness.

make it looks & works way better than GNOME.

UNITY

Short History of UNITY

Started after a parting of ways with GNOME

Born as an idea & philosophy of Ubuntu.

UNITY

Unity in Action

UNITY

Unity in Action

UNITY

Unity in Action

UNITY

Unity in Action

UNITY

The Other Guys“Right. There are never just one option in Linux.”

XFCE LXDE

XFCE LXDE

• “Xforms Common Environment

• Aims to be fast• Started in 1996 by

Olivier Fourdan• Example of Distro that

use Xfce:• Xubuntu• Fedora Xfce Spin• Zenwalk

• Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

• Extremely Fast

•Designed with low specification hardware in mind

•Has the lowest memory usage

• Popularity is increasing

Demo Time

GNOME

GNOME

KDE

UNITY

Xfce

LXDE

wait. there’s more.

Thank you.gagah@numoss.org