[EN] wondering about Razor-Qt

[vilde]

I red about the upcoming release with Razor-Qt Desktop Enviroment, and then I checked on their internet site. There is written

Razor-qt works with various WMs, most of Razor developers use Openbox. But it's no problem to take any modern WM from fwwm2 to kwin (yes, KDE without Plasma Desktop is possible too).

I don't really understand the difference between Desktop Environment and Wm (window manager). I thought it is the same? Can anyone explain this?

[michaa7]

To put it in a nutshell one can say that

the WM allows the underlaying grafical system to display more than one window

and

the DE manages the content of each single window and allows for user interaction.

This is my simplified understanding of the interaction between DE and WM.

[titan]

A WM does just that, manage windows, size, location, tiled, floating, borders, headers etc. A DE is everything else.