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KDE and GNOME - some reality check..




i see people going around, bashing KDE and calling out GNOME's name,
and quite forgetting a few facts:

1. the GNOME project started out as a counter-movement to KDE, due to
   quarels about using the non-free QT tool kit. thus, if there was no
   KDE, no idea when GNOME would have been started at all, or how much
   effort people would have invested in it.

   the reason that KDE uses QT was simply cause there was no good free
   graphical toolkit (that also looked good) when they went out with that,
   and unlike the gnome people, they didn't want to develope one.

2. from my experience, KDE works more stable then gnome does (it is too
   common for gnome applets to get the gnome panel stuck). since
   enlightenment also didn't manage to work on my PC - i gave up on gnome.
   i'm not saying that gnome does work - just that it didn't work for me.
   btw, this is GNOMe that came with RH 6.0 - and don't start telling me
   to upgrade - i won't. KDE - it's probably version 1.0.

3. when gnome started out, i thought that they will eventually have
   something that matches KDE, and ends up being better, due to the basic
   usage of CORBA in all layers (that's what they stated, at least). in
   practice, i didn't see GNOME offering something better _to the user_
   until now - they both give a host of little utilities that are mostly
   not commonly used by a user (with gnome - it looks like its mostly a
   host of different ways to graphically view system usage statistics...).

   in KDE they at least started going out to the applications area (with
   koffice, kdevelope, etc). in gnome - they followed by with
   their own "office" suite. no need to mention that all of these are
   still not quite useable.


personally, at work - i use KDE - simply for the reason stated by other
people - i like it better then GNOME, and (surprisingly) better then fvwm.
oh, and because the features i need in it are stable (i.e. i usually work
on the system for several weeks in a raw, without logging out).


guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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