On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 Jerry Lybb Kreps wrote:
>Michael Perry wrote:
>> Wrong... I just checked www.gnome.org and you need a later version of
>> imlib and its there. The new gnome is hot, hot, hot. I like it.
>> Running in windowmaker now; downloading enlightenment next.
>How does gnome compare to KDE in regards to bloat and speed?
I haven't noticed any problems with bloat or speed using GNOME.
I am using the "Still Conspicuously Skillful Cow" (99.8) release
on a RedHat machine and will start moving it to my SuSE 6 box
as soon as I have some time.
Actually I am an Enlightenment/Eterm fan and use a very bare desktop,
I don't like pop up menus or panels at all, but I am looking
at GNOME to see how it's progressing compared to KDE.
If you leave out the technical issues you only have subjective
comparisons but I would say that
-GNOME is slightly less win95/98 like than KDE
-GNOME has some very elegant function and setup details compared to KDE
-GNOME has nice slick widgets (themes) and a lot of elegant icons,
the panel is much nicer than the KDE one.
-GNOME has very nice powerfull apps available, for example:
gedit, gnumeric, gmc, balsa, all kinds of pim things I never use, etc.,
see the list at gnome.org.
I have already decided that I am going to use the gnome apps
but 'underneath', not 'on top of', Enlightenment.
Give it a try. It works with WM, fvwm2, ice, etc. but the 'default'
windowmanager is going to be E and I think E has the most 'hooks'
for GNOME at the moment. Anyway, they sure fit like hand and glove
(and have nice default themes).
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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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