Tracy R Reed wrote: > Gus Wirth wrote: >> Unfortunately, KDE and GNOME are not just window managers. Instead, >> they incorporate an entire desktop environment that includes things >> like inter-process communication and messaging in addition to what >> many see as the just the window manager. > > Sure, but who uses that stuff? As you point out, the they implement IPC > isn't well supported or compatible with much. > >> For most people, you won't really notice much difference between GNOME >> and KDE. I personally switched to KDE a couple years ago when the >> GNOME guys removed the console from the right-click menu and buried it >> under Accessories just like MS Windows. And the only way to get it >> back was to install a binary extension to Nautilus. There is just >> something evil about removing the console from a Linux user. > > I just go to Application -> System Tools -> Terminal and drag and drop > the icon onto my toolbar. (Hey, a working use for IPC!) and that problem > is solved. It's funny how people will switch their whole window > manager/desktop environment over such a trivial thing. :)
I generally agree w/ TR that the differences are not important to me, ..but.. I would nevertheless like to see a more-or-less comprehensive comparison of Gnome vs KDE features, behavior and possibly performance (including memory and library costs). Does such a thing exist? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
