On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:44:07 -0700, jb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll bite on this one. > > I tried Gnome when I first got into Linux in 2000. I decided that KDE > was more customizable (and prettier). I just got a box set of Novell > Desktop Linux, which is defaulted to Gnome, so I thought I'd give it a try. > > Yes, Gnome is cleaner, and easire to use, if you want to train yourself > to use it the way it lets you. KDE on the other had seems to be built to > be customized. I'm sure that Gnome can probably be cutsomized as well, > but I'll be darned if I could figure out how to change the window > decoration color. > > In short, I prefer KDe because I can tell it how I want to work and it > will cooperate. I don't get that coorperation from Gnome.
To me this whole argument boils down to productivity. Ideally I shouldn't spend any of my (or my company's) time customizing anything. This works best if the default configuration is already the way you like it (which is why I use Ubuntu) but it also works if you give up your preconceptions and try what is put in front of you as is. This is certainly the case with Nautilus. I didn't like the whole spatial thing at first, but I thought, "what the heck," and gave it a try. Now I love it. If I had this mythical "free time" I sometimes hear people whispering about I might feel differently and still use KDE. The funny part of the story is that I used to use KDE because it was simpler and cleaner. I hated GNOME because it seemed like you could customize anything and that was an excuse for the defaults to be bad. Somewhere along the line they switched, and so did I. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
