Wayne Sallee a écrit :
Oliver Burger wrote on 10/23/2010 11:39 AM:
Wayne Sallee<[email protected]> schrieb am 2010-10-23
I think that everyone with a decent computer, should install both
Gnome,
and KDE.
Why?
I normally don't need more then one DE on my system. I do install
applications
from both DEs (kmail, korganizer,... from KDE, pidgin, gimp,... from
GNOME)
but why should I install more than that?
Oliver
It gives a second desktop to fall back on, and guarantees all
dependencies for KDE or GNOME aps, provides a fall back method to
adjust setting such as font and such for desktop aps used in the other
desktop, and gives the newbe the ease of switching to the other
desktop until they decide which one they like. And installing both
desktops is an easy way to install all standard aps for both desktops,
and that new standard apps for the unused desktop is installed with
desktop updates, so that it's there if you need it. Just like I like
to have several internet browsers even though I rarely use the others.
If one is giving you trouble, you can try the other.
Wayne Sallee
[email protected]
It's not clear your definition of "decent" ... do you mean a computer
with almost unlimited disk space, multicore 64-bit processor ... ?
And why not just install everything in all the repositories.
One never knows when one might need another application ...
and besides, it's so much fun playing with all sorts of different
applications, learning and configuring all sorts of different desktops ...
However, most users want to do just that ... *use* their computer, to do
something.
They don't want tons of clutter on their disk to maintain. They don't
necessarily want to learn the particularities of more than one major
desktop.
Or to learn 47 different applications to do essentially the same thing.
Personally, I use Gnome, and have adapted to its few shortcomings, in
preference to those of KDE. Unfortunately KDE insists on installing
many applications which, in addition to not working very well, clutter
my system, including the menu.
But others prefer KDE over Gnome, and some like yourself prefer both.
If a minimal install of KDE were available, maybe installing both KDE
and Gnome by default might make sense.
But it seems to me that a simpler environment would be advantageous for
newer users.
- André
