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On Thursday 07 October 2004 08:36, Gary Kline wrote:
>  Both Gnome and KDE are nice front ends, but a bit heavy
>  on the graphical interface side for a CLI hacker like
>  me.  Feedback welcome!


Try xfce4. 

XCFe started life as a CDE clone, but the later versions are quite 
configurable, and it's more lightweight than Gnome  or KDE. 

Personally I don't much like Gnome on BSD or Gentoo because I've had a 
lot of bad experiences  building and updating it. KDE takes a bit 
longer to upgrade, but it's usually straightforward.