Raspberry Pi Announces PIXEL Desktop Environment

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi Announces PIXEL Desktop Environment

Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation formally announced the Raspberry Pi PIXEL, their own desktop that will be used in future Raspbian spins...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raspberry-Pi-PIXEL

[gufide]

Argh, why not lxqt??

[holunder]

That Pixel name seems rather unfortunate considering Google's coming smartphone rebranding.

[alpha_one_x86]

Exact: Why not wayland? Why don't group the task force to LXDE? +1 Why not LXQt ?

[pheldens]

plain xfce on xorg goes a long ways

[tweak42]

That Pixel name seems rather unfortunate considering Google's coming smartphone rebranding.

I actually think it's more appropriate name because it has Pi in the name. As others have commented Google moving to Pixel branding just doesn't fit.

[tessio]

LXDE is dead. They should move to XFCE.

[dungeon]

Why G or Q, why X or W... why not Pi

[boxie]

Ahh cool - a new shiny toy!

It will be interesting to see where they go with this.

It would be rather cool if they start work on a wayland DE though, they could be an interesting force in the Linux world

[dungeon]

It is nowhere to go, new default theme... and something that support all-Pis, even oldest one with 256 MB.

I guess it is hard to support low memory systems with new bloatware wirdgets/etc...