I've been using KDE for a long time. Initially I tried both KDE and Gnome, but I ended up using KDE exclusively because the mouse behavior was so bad in Gnome. It's hard to describe. In KDE I set acceleration to 4 and threshold to 1, and life was great. I messed with Gnome many times and could never get the pointer to behave similarly. So I gave up. But KDE is, IMHO, excellent all the way around.
Miark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:20:30 +0100, Roman Korcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am mainly using KDE, but wonder what Gnome could offer. > > > Now I would like to know why each of you is using the one and not the > > > other - ie. what is your personal preference and why, what option does > > > it make the right one for you. > > Initially I selected KDE over GNome for a fairly silly but valid for me > reason -- the KDE screens were always easier to read -- crisper image, > black text on white background by default (at least in Mandrake 7.2 and > earlier). > > The GNome screens always seemed a little fuzzier (see the monkey's > footprint) and darker -- thus harder for me to read. > > I've spent about a year and a half with kde, and have never really gone > back to try GNome since then (occasionally I use a GNome application, on > an experimental basis). > > As I've learned more about KDE (their dcop (kdcop) "technologies") and > had occasion to deal with their "technical support" I've found them to > be quite responsive and willing to help. They've already implemented > changes to deal with some of my suggestions (konqueror now opens in the > desktop it is started in, not in a desktop that I might switch to after > I call for it to start), and seem interested in implementing others > (they might be in 3.0 -- I haven't tried -- things relating to keyboard > shortcuts and copy and paste in klipper and khotkeys). > > Thus, I made a brief trial of both (and the other window managers I > found on early versions of Mandrake, Caldera, RedHat, etc.), decided I > liked kde, and have found no reason to switch. > > If I still worked for my previous employer I might be very interested in > GNomes mail client (Evolution??). > > Randy Kramer > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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