Re: Window Manager Opinions

[MBGaskins]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/19/2006 10:48:10 AM:
 Just a general question; not sure if it belongs in questions but let me 
know
 otherwise.  I'm currently using gnome2 as my desktop environment on RC
 6.1but it is a little dry;  What are you all using out there and any
 reasons as
 to behind the decision and such.

Gnome2 works very well for me in most cases, but on systems that have more 
limited resources I've found XFCE to work quite well. 

Mike Gaskins
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Re: KDE + GNOME?

[MBGaskins]

David J Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/19/2006 04:30:16 PM:
 I have both Kde 3.5.2 and Gnome 2.12 installed. I don't actually use 
gnome, 
 but I need several parts of it as dependencies for other packages that I 
do 
 run, and having enough drive space to do so, I just keep the whole thing 
up 
 to date. Both run without any problems.
 
 FWIW, I have the opposite opinion from Paul on which is prettier. I 
think Kde 
 is much more attractive than the rather spartan Gnome environment.
 
 David

I've got both KDE and Gnome working fine on my Gentoo system at home (I 
use FreeBSD for server use more than desktop), and they play together just 
fine.

As yet another oddball opinion on the subject, I find KDE to be 
graphically prettier, but Gnome has a better flow to it.  It's a bit 
more subdued (KDE seems to be very in your face).  Also, the rendered of 
KDE just seems to mess stuff up more often.  Desktop icon labels are cut 
off in the middle of a word  for example, or toolbar icon labels have an 
off center appearance to them.  I used KDE almost exclusively since 
Mandrake 5.1, but I've switched to Gnome as my primary interface as of 
Gnome 2.10.

Mike
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