Re: GNOME vs. KDE
In a message dated 5/21/99 3:13:29 PM Central Daylight Time,
bradleyb@u.washington.edu writes:
> > (Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports
> > GNOME).
>
> this might be true to a degree, but it is a gross overstatement to say
> that GNOME requires one to use Enlightenment. I'm using Gnome with icewm,
> and it runs well enough (on a P75) to use full-time. It's fast and
> stable.
> If I need to run in 8bpp color mode, I use fvwm, and I'm still not
> missing out on much.
>
You're quite right, and my statement didn't intend to imply that
Enlightenment was your only choice; I'm just quoting the GNOME docs. Also, I
believe icewm is next in line as far as full-support-of-GNOME goes.
Frankly, I would't know the difference... I haven't run GNOME enough to find
the incompatible functions. ;)
-Jay
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