Following my previos post, after doing a lot of searching and some studying on how the X window system works, i've come across a way to make my own desktop environment without the need for IceWM. I have found a few window managers that rely on Qt4, and since i develop software with Qt4 also, i'ma start building myself one from scratch using the Qt4 library. As i understand it, a desktop environment is merely a client that communicates with the X server. The Qt4 program would be the client, of which the display manager runs on start up, and from there the program takes over. How simple!
I have started a project page for DexiosDE. You can visit the page for more information on the concept of the desktop environment. I feel the concept is most fitting for a Linux distro that is aimed towards Christian developers, but also for any developer, and Qt4 will make it possible.
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