[techrat]

Good luck getting anyone to agree on anything.

It's why everything is so fragmented to begin with. "Oh, I don't like what X is doing, so I'll fork it and make Y."

If I were in a position where I managed several distros... I could say we could just suck it up and universally use XFCE, but then there's always someone who won't like that and they'll respin a distro to have some other DE instead.

It seems with every decision we end up with another fork.

[michaelmrose]

XFCE is honestly a mediocre middle ground between the actual minimalism of a window manager or the better functionality of say kde.

Most fragmentation is actually entirely different software with the same end goal as opposed to actual forks and it's not really clear that the developer of foo would have joined forces with the developer of bar had he not started his own project.

[techrat]

Like I said, good luck getting anyone to agree on anything.