On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:44 -0800, Sharninder wrote: > > > > (Emphasis Mine). This is something that i had > > discussed with Indra and > > SM sometime back. I am not against KDE or GNOME or > > something else - but > > a comment by one of my students who had taken the > > knoppix cd from me > > says it all - "Windows i to - ektu bhalo dekhte" > > so true .. my dad says the same thing everytime he > sees me logged on to my Gnome desktop. He says it > looks the same except that the "Start button" is on > the top by default. > Thats one reason I really used to like window maker > earlier. Its fast, Its clean and its differen than the > others. But then for the millions of newbies out there > GNOME/KDE make perfect sense. And I have a feeling > that in these times of change and turmoil in the OS > world there are more newbies out there than > experienced users :)
hmmm... reminds me of a article at NewsForge http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1424212 <quote> Siemens has no "religious" attachment to a particular distro or desktop environment. Before settling on Ximian, Siemens evaluated plain vanilla Gnome and KDE as well. Siemens found KDE to be more "Windows-like" than Gnome, but that led to problems when non-technical users expected a more Windows-like experience. Gnome, particularly Ximian's version, was "different enough" to set user expectations that the experience would be less like Windows, which led to fewer adoption problems. </quote> I don't use KDE, so I can't comment on the KDE vs. GNOME thingy, but I have a feeling that the GNOME developers try to move away from the traditional Windows like look and feel (spatial file navigation, path bar in file selectors, lack of text entry in "Open File" dialog boxes). But, that only makes it more Mac like ;-) However, functionality wise, we may see some very interesting things soon in the Free Desktop(s) - and AFAIK, these features are not available atm in either Mac OS or in 'doze. Take a look at Dashboard (http://www.nat.org/dashboard/), or at Storage (http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/) for examples. Of course, Longhorn may change all that ;-) -cheers- sdg -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://clai.net/sayamindu] Free Software: the Software by the People, of the People and for the People. Develop! Share! Enhance! and Enjoy! -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
