On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 22:04, Vik Olliver wrote: > I'm doing an article on desktops, and I wondered if the assembled would > mind telling me their preferred desktop GNOME > and why. 1. GNOME shipped with Debian before KDE, and I've stuck with it ever since (Homeostasis). I have a lot of experience with GNOME administration after setting it up as the default desktop for the Computer Science department here at Canterbury. 2. It is not as ugly as CDE (shudder). 3. It feels like Unix. Whenever I use KDE I think, wow, this is like Windows 95. Which is fine, but I am not using Windows, I'm on a Posix machine. (I don't know why GNOME feels more "Unix" than KDE.) 4. The wide range of applications that use the Gtk+ and GNOME toolkits. 5. I like muted colour palette used by GNOME icons. 6. I code in C, not C++. 7. Galeon, Evolution, and Nautilus.
-- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
