Like many of you I've tried various flavors of Linux distros, mostly Debian based ones for me, and have seen XFCE look and feel pretty much the same in all those. Kind of a late 90's vibe but very functional.

How is the Devuan default of XFCE look so darn good? I'm on Excalibur btw. Is it a custom theme or something? I like it better than most heavy DEs I've tried. I'm still two weeks in on my honeymoon phase but so far I really like this deployment.

Some examples...

Upper left drop down is cleaner than most XFCEs which try to bloat the launcher box. The icon choices are familiar but I don't remember them in XFCE previously. Were they from Plasma? The frames, the tone and the speed all just match. Normally XFCE attempts look like grandmas quilt.