Michele Calgaro composed on 2015-06-07 20:21 (UTC+0900):
Felix Miata wrote:
IceWM is a DE.
Not to be fussy, but IceWM is *not* a DE, it is a Window Manager (that's what WM stands for, after all). The main role of a WM is to handle window visualization, in case of TDE it is done by twin. So it is perfectly possible to run a DE using a WM different from the "default" one.
A DE incorporates a WM, being that all are dependant on one as its foundation if they aren't one exclusively, just not a simple one like IceWM, TWM and other bare bones kin. There's no way to say Gnome, KDE, Cinammon or TDE are not both DE and WM. http://askubuntu.com/questions/18078/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deskto...