From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 9:23:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C1137B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6325A43E42 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 09:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g73GOJts005752; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:24:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:23:18 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id EBC68BB34; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:22:58 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: "MET" , Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME || GNOME vs. KDE Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:22:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <001c01c23b06$3f9e0b80$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> In-Reply-To: <001c01c23b06$3f9e0b80$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208031222.58718.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 03 August 2002 11:55 am, MET wrote: | So what's the big difference? How would one go about choosing which to | run? Chrysler vs. Ford. Burger King vs. McDonald's. Toyota vs. Honda. And you can use packages from one with the other. KDE is more of a "Windows-like" experience, I'd say. I't more tightly integrated: you can use different window manages with Gnome, but KDE uses kdewm, period. I mean, there are a lots of themes and customizations, but KDE is more of an overall package and Gnome is more of a "Unix-like" experience, with customization taken to preposterous extremes and the ability to plug-and-replace all sorts of stuff. I much prefer KDE myself: a coherent entity with a single control panel seems like a superior approach for a GUI environment to me. I'd strongly recommend KDE over Gnome for those transitioning from Windows and looking for an easier time, but I prefer it even though I'm pretty much the opposite, having Unix experience that is old enough to drink (that is, more than 21 years) and having never liked Windows as an O/S. The best approach if you can is to find people who use each and see which you like by watching themn work, but if you aren't lucky enough to know such people I'd try browing the web for screen shots and such. I like KDE myself, FWIW. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message