From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 14:18: 4 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 0FF4A37B400 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 14:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA1443E5E for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 14:18:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-63.214.221.91.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([63.214.221.91] helo=sparky) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17b6Hf-0002B1-00; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 14:18:00 -0700 From: Jud To: Simon Siemonsma , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ed Yu Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 17:18:33 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020803201451.98162.qmail@web20701.mail.yahoo.com> Message-Id: <053Y3ZMKDDEDRNLF1T6ZOIOJ4XYWWR.3d4c48a9@sparky> Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME || GNOME vs. KDE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 8/3/2002 4:14:51 PM, Ed Yu wrote: >One thing you'll find is that you can applications >written for both as long as you have the base >libraries. For example, I prefer to use Evolution for >email and use Galeon for webbrowsing whereas I use >Konsole for all my console work (vim) and I usually >use KDE rather than Gnome. (I use fluxbox now but >that's another story) > >-ed That raises something I wanted to mention, which is that "neither" is also an acceptable answer. I use Blackbox and Windowmaker as window managers, rox-filer (built from source - the port installs a fairly large number of Gnome dependencies I don't need) as file manager, Opera as browser, etc. I haven't generally been interested in large "environments" like GNOME and KDE (though I do find myself curious about the e17 version of Enlightenment). Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message