From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 6 6:44:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from rascal.honk.org (cr523413-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.177.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A9B15136 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 06:44:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@rascal.honk.org) Received: from localhost (mpoulin@localhost) by rascal.honk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA10106 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:55:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@rascal.honk.org) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 09:55:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Marty Poulin To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Gnome vs. KDE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't want to start an "advocacy war" on these two desktop environments, but has anybody had a chance to install and try both of them? If so, what are your impressions - good and bad - and which one do you prefer? My own experience has been that I much prefer KDE, simply because all Gnome does for me at this point is dump core as soon as I start X. Installing gnome from the ports tree is also a huge task -the libraries and dependencies dont seem to want to install properly. The KDE meta-port is much easier to install (although it can still be a bit difficult when it want to...) I would like to get Gnome working - from the documentation on their website it looks like it will be pretty good - but I have a feeling that it might take me a while to get things going... ================== Quote of the Day ===================== When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. - Clifton Fadiman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message