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Desktop environment (DE) is a graphical users interface (GUI) that enables a user to access and manage the important and frequently accessed features and services of an operating system.
In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell.
Command-line shells provide a command-line interface (CLI) to the operating system, while graphical shells provide a graphical user interface (GUI). Other possibilities, although not so common, include a voice user interface and various implementations of a text-based user interface (TUI) that are not CLI.
A shell is a computer program that presents a command line interface which allows you to control your computer using commands entered with a keyboard instead of controlling graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with a mouse/keyboard/touchscreen combination.
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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