Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment is now available with a revamped theme, Night Light feature, and many other changes.
  • Troy
    4•3 hours ago

    Someone enlighten me. How many active desktop projects are there currently? (Not just window managers…)

    KDE Plasma, Trinity (is it active? Fork of KDE 3.5)

    Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon (fork all the things!), or “reskins” like Unity or Budgie?

    LXQt, Xfce… Is enlightenment still active as a project?

    Does anyone use Deepin – appears to be a partial fork of KDE (kwin, etc.) with new desktop environment built around it rather than use Plasma.

    Or Pantheon (Vala+GTK3?).

    Cosmic is from the ground up, recent and active I guess.

    Missing anything?

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 hours ago

      Yeah that checks out.

      I’m fairly new to this space so not aware of the more obscure or older ones but my list of popular Desktop Environments would be:

      • KDE Plasma
      • GNOME
      • Cinnamon
      • MATE
      • Budgie
      • XFCE
      • LXQt
      • Cosmic