Re: (OT) Re: GNOME is f*cked seven ways from Sunday
On 02/09/2005 09:32 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:01, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > It is bloated, like the rest of KDE is.
>
> I have to disagree. Featureful: yes. Bloated: no.
>
> For example, I use KMyMoney to manage my checkbook at home. One day while
> I was at work, I wanted to check my balance. On a whim, I loaded KMyMoney
> locally and selected the File -> Open menu. Then, I entered
> "sftp://myhomeserver/home/me"; and selected "personal.kmy" from the
> resulting display of the files on my home server. Voila - there was my
> checkbook in all it's miniscule glory.
>
> I like the fact that I can open WebDAV files in Kate exactly like they were
> on my local filesystem. I think it's spiffy that I can write a letter in
> Kmail and add attachments that physically reside on remote machines,
> accessible through a long list of available protocols, without Kmail having
> to have direct support for each of them.
>
> That's pretty darn cool stuff, and I don't consider it bloated at all.
I don't consider KDE to be bloated though some distros force you to install
packages you really don't need. I believe the KDE packages I installed on my
Debian system forced me to install kdetoys, which I really don't want, but I
don't think KDE is bloated. I like KDE to the point that I did not install
Gnome. In the past, I would install both but once Nautilus became part of
the Gnome installation, I quit installing Gnome. For one thing, Nautilus
would take over the KDE desktop once it was installed and used once and I
could not figure out how to stop that.
One reason to install two desktop managers is that if one breaks down during
an upgrade, you have the other one to work with. I just don't find Gnome to
be as useful and as featurefull as KDE.
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