On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, patricia campbell wrote: > At the risk of starting a holy war what are the preferred desktop > environments out there in mlug-land & why. > > XFCE4 is mine light weight & uncluttered > KDE > Gnome > > other ?
I played around with kde4 when it had just been released, and I far prefered it to Gnome, however it was suffering from growing pains. I'd be interested in hearing current user experiences with it. I especially liked the fact that they have done some really novel things, ie kwin. They got a lot of flak for the initial bugs/slowness, and I'd imagine they still are, but they deserve a lot of credit for the bold steps they've taken. My absolute all time favourite window manager is fluxbox, with conky for keeping track of machine activity, I use aterm for my terminal emulator, and the standard mix of ff, OOo, xpdf, etc. I love the fluxbox menu system, the ease of configuring it, and the fact that by and large I never have to deal with it. I do, however, end up using gnome on my Ubuntu and Fedora systems because it's there and I don't like configuring every machine I'm on. Some comments about gnome, that really get on my nerves: -it gets slower every release -the people trying to standardize configuration have ADD -too few options in menus -gconf-editor -nautilus (yes some people love it, but they are wrong. it is terrible) I like the kde4 configuration menus, and I also like what OpenSuse did with Yast. Is it just me or does anyone else here feel that gnome is getting to look more and more like a dead horse, beaten? _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
