shell
:shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design (by lirios)
pcmanfm
Extremely fast and lightweight file manager (by lxde)
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| shell | pcmanfm | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 231 | 116 | |
| 0.4% | 6.9% | |
| 7.7 | 5.6 | |
| 3 months ago | 7 months ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-08.
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KDE Plasma 6.0 is expected to come next summer. What are your expectations?
sddm is no KDE project, btw. One or two KDE developers contribute to sddm but the actual maintainer no longer cares to put out releases (he thinks he can develop an entire Plasma competitor as a one-man project). Fedora switched to a tested git snapshot for this reason.
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Wayland desktops
Not any of the popular ones, but there are a few smaller ones: Liri: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Liri https://github.com/lirios/shell Maui Shell: https://github.com/Nitrux/maui-shell
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So many GTK Desktop Environments, yet so little Qt ones
There is also https://github.com/lirios/shell
pcmanfm
Posts with mentions or reviews of pcmanfm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-23.
- my first rice! :)
- openbox "pcmanfm --desktop" glitch, does anybody know why this is happening?
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So many GTK Desktop Environments, yet so little Qt ones
That's a stretch. One former LXDE contributor, LStranger, wanted to continue the GTK version. The entire remaining developer team (including the LXDE founder PCMan) was like "whatever floats your boat, man" and decided to split up the projects in a friendly manner. But let's be honest here: Barely anything happens at LXDE any longer. Just look at the core component, PCManFM that is both the file manager and the desktop shell: https://github.com/lxde/pcmanfm/commits/master
What are some alternatives?
When comparing shell and pcmanfm you can also consider the following projects:
cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
lumina - Lumina Desktop Environment
QGnomePlatform - QPlatformTheme for a better Qt application inclusion in GNOME
pcmanfm - PCManFM file manager
nextspace - NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
starship - SailfishOS synchronization app for AsteroidOS.
Vim - The official Vim repository
QmlFlightInstruments - QmlFlightInstruments is a QML project that implements several flight instruments.
candy-icons - :lollipop: Sweet gradient icons