On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 09:54, GBV wrote: > Hi all, > > I prefer KDE, Gnome seens obsolete, and using gtk lib i´m able to use Gnome > appz on KDE with no problems at all, > > My objective with this message is to gather advantages and disvantages of > this two great softwares.. > > Post your user and developer experience... > > thks... > > Guilherme Viebig "Tastes great" "Less filling" "Tastes great" "Less filling" "Emacs" "Vi" Different people have different tastes and values in their way of working with things. For some, twm is the sharpest solution, for others, something like KDE or Gnome is preferred. I personally use Gnome 2.2 98% of the time (okay - maybe a bit less - I don't use it to sleep) as I am more comfortable with its design. I have three panels on my main account - a menu panel on the top, an edge panel on the bottom, and a sliding panel on the right. The top and bottom are loaded with applets monitoring the system, the stock markets, my connections to the world and the weather conditions, while the side panel is loaded with launchers for various programs installed outside the Debian packaging (and hence menu) system. While KDE is a solid system, it doesn't offer in a way that is obvious to me that level of tools. But as I said, different people have different tastes and values. I used to use OS/2, and while it has certain technical similarities to KDE (both being object based and programmed in object oriented fashions) it had an unfortunate problem of there being many, many third party applications that were nicely functional, but unfortunately butt-ugly and very poorly structured in terms of user interfaces. KDE looks "better" than OS/2 - partly due to the difference of OS/2 being developed in the days of VGA and 16 to 256 colour palettes and 640x480 screen resolutions. I liked the "feel" of it, however - particularly for the handful of programs like PMview that actually did leverage the workplace functionality. Personally, I find Gnome meets that functionality better than KDE. YMMV. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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