Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce
On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote:
> > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like
> > > > Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse?
> > >
> > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-)
> >
> > As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen
> > enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't
> > really have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would
> > be interested in knowing from your experience why you feel that Gnome is
> > superior to KDE. I guess what I am looking for deals more with the
> > functionality than anything else and not speed. So far going from Windoze
> > to Linux/KDE is like going from dialup to wireless!
>
> It really depends on what you want. KDE is better if you want to fine
> tune how your system runs (But KDE is sluggish in my opinion), GNOME
> is a /bit/ lighter without much customization involved. Xfce is the
> best of the three in my experience, giving the user both control and
> speed.
>
> Or, if you want to really save your CPU cycles, try a window manager.
> Fluxbox/FVWM/WindowMaker are the best in my opinion, I personally use
> Window Maker (As I've stated dozens of times on these mailing lists).
>
> You really don't have to worry about desktop integration, because if
> you love Kmail and Kwallet then you could run the Kwallet daemon when
> you log in and have all of the functionality of Kwallet in say,
> GNOME/Fluxbox.
>
> # aptitude install fluxbox wmaker icewm gnome-core kde-core xfce4 xfwm4
>
> And give them all a shot :)
I ran the above aptitude command line and here is last section copied from the
terminal window;
<begin>
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libfam0
The following packages will be upgraded:
libnspr4-0d libnss3-0d
2 packages upgraded, 203 newly installed, 1 to remove and 52 not upgraded.
Need to get 113MB of archives. After unpacking 428MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gamin: Conflicts: fam but 2.7.0-12 is to be installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
fam [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam
nautilus recommends fam
Score is -341
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
<end>
I chose not to accept this right now. Do I need to add these two packages to
the above command line so that they will be resolved or does it even matter?
Thanks,
Randy
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