On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:28:35 -0700 (PDT), Peter Rymshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Is there a compare anywhere re the advantages and
> disadvantages of KDE vs. Gnome? Is this list and
> Mandrake specifically oriented toward KDE? Before
> sending this I decided that I aught to check the list
> archives and there was *nothing* with Gnome in the
> subject.
Any kind of KDE vs GNOME review would be very subjective. In the end, it comes
down to personal preferences and tastes.
This is my take on things. While I like both environments, I prefer GNOME, and I
have been using it for about two years now. KDE is targetted at the consumer,
particularly one migrating from Windows. As a result, it can be viewed as
'Windows on steroids'. GNOME, on the other hand, offers a great deal of
flexibility and power, at the expense of a little user-friendliness. GNOME takes
longer to get used to, and can only be truly appreciated through experimentation
and configuration. KDE is a bit more plug-'n-play, and once that's done, there's
little else you can do.
> I don't think that I want to switch to Gnome, but I
> have a couple of reasons. First, I went looking for
> what the version already installed was because of my
> interest in a home finance program that requires Gnome
> 1.4 (can't think of what it's called). There I saw
> Gnome's pilot program and tried it and found it
> worked! (Haven't been able to get KPilot to.) On the
> down side, there did not seem to be any way already
> set up for accessing the CD-ROM or Floppy (Does Gnome
> require that they be mounted for each use as in early
> version of KDE I tried once in an unsuccessful try at
> Linux about 2 years ago?)
Generally, KDE apps should work in GNOME with no trouble, and vice versa. I use
Konqueror in GNOME all the time.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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