Thus spake Michael JasonSmith on this Sat, 21 Sep 2002 : ] 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
KDE ] > and why. It's what I started using, it worked, and I stayed with it. KDE was a bit ahead of gnome at the time, although from screenshots I've seen it appears gnome has caught up. ] 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). I haven't seen CDE ] 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.) I use windows at work - NT4 at my last job and 2000 at my current job. I prefer KDE and to me it doesn't really look much like windows - well okay slightly. There's lots of little things I do in KDE that frustrate me when I can't do the same at work. ] 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. Yuri
