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What's the difference between a graphical shell and a desktop environment

Asked 2011-12-30T02:32:37.377
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What's the difference between a graphical shell and a desktop environment? I keep hearing how

GNOME 3, KDE Plasma Shell and Unity are shells.

and how GNOME 2, XFCE and LXDE are desktop environments.

Is it that the interface is the Shell and all the rest of the software is the desktop environment, if this where true wouldn't that make GNOME Panel a shell?

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Desktop environments, such as Explorer, ARE graphical shells because they provide an interface for users to access the services of the kernel.

answered 2013-06-11T06:20:07.330

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