polling my FreeBSD compariots...

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> Check out this URL for starters:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

A "desktop environment" can mean anything ranging from a simple window 
manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as KDE or GNOME.


"can mean" is very far from definition.

further reading shows that desktop is "where data and applications can be 
placed".

i always though that data and application are on disk.

still no definition of desktop, but looks like desktop=ability to display 
icon symbols of files and programs (which are files too) and ability to 
provide "panel" for starting programs and doing some other maintenance.


do i say right?