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Re: KDE and GNOME - some reality check..
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" wrote:
> gk>> in KDE they at least started going out to the applications area (with
> gk>> koffice, kdevelope, etc). in gnome - they followed by with
> gk>> their own "office" suite. no need to mention that all of these are
> gk>> still not quite useable.
>
> I happen to like AbiWord pretty much, though it lacks some important
> features. Gnumeric is pretty useable (except that it lacks charts, I want
> charts!). And I like GNOME just because it's so much prettier :) KDE
> simulates Windows look (or Motif look), which is godawful ugly (both of
> them, Motif even worse). And last time I looked there was not yet themes
> support enough to change it. And don'tt tell me themes are slow. I want my
> desktop to look pretty, if I spend 1/4 of my time looking on it.
Gnumeric got charts (and many ohter things) as bonobo objects, but since
bonobo itself is development, you need to compile bonobo, and compile
gnumeric --enable-bonobo, then you will be able to insert pictures,
mozilla, charts and many other things into your spreadshee(i)t.
KDE got theming starting from 2.x, since Qt got theming. KDE is also WAY
better at the international front, since Qt2 is unicode, and KDE2 got
support for r-t-l and l-t-r, and it got better support for many
languages. (I'm not saying GNOME got bad i18n, but KDE got it better.
And KDE supports Hebrew. GNOME will (iirc) from GTK+1.4, with Owen
Taylors's afforts (www.pango.org)). Besides, GNOME is more comfortable
for me. Yeah, GMC sux, but thats the only thing that sux, and its being
replaced. And GNOME is for sure faster!! By far. Unless of course you
use lots of weird applets and things, and use Enlightenment, and use a
VERY slow theme, but all that is not GNOME's fault. Right now I use
HeliXGNOME with Sawmill, and the XenoThin theme, and to open a GTK+
window, it takes 1/2 of the time it takes for a Qt one. Not even talking
about Netscape/Motif - but thats a different story.
I personally don't care about the look, since if I did, I wouldn't use
neither of this desktop enviroments, but use the most pretty desktop
enviroment, Enlightenment. GNOME just heppens to be more comfortable
(With the top menu, and all those panels, and the applets I want, and
auto-creating-destroying-desktops and things like that), and faster.
(KDE doesn't even give you indication that it loads. You sit there for
20 seconds, and click the right-mouse-button, untill it opens a menu -
only then you know it loads. GNOME shows you this nice dialog, with
those icons showing what sub-system is loading, and it loads and works
just plain faster.
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David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)
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