From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 4 15: 3:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ams.amsinc.com (ams.amsinc.com [162.70.244.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8AB37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ben_Calvert@amsinc.com) Received: from ams-central-gate-5a.amsinc.com (ams-central-gate-5a.amsinc.com [162.70.34.52]) by ams.amsinc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA07603; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:02:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben_Calvert@amsinc.com Received: by ams-central-gate-5a.amsinc.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 85256A61.00791DAB ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:02:54 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: AMSINC To: Tim Erlin Cc: "J.Goodleaf" , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <85256A61.00791D5D.00@ams-central-gate-5a.amsinc.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:02:22 -0700 Subject: Re: Gnome vs. KDE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i think the problem is less a matter of etiquette than of many people being very attached to their favorate (window manager | editor | os | etc). it sounds as though you were more interested in actually finding out which to use, so i'll offer the reasons i use the one i do: i started out with gnome and enlightenment, cause it was the default on the linux distro i was using. i really like the tremendous amount of customization that is possible with this combination - any element of your interface can look like pretty much anything you want. when kde2 shipped, i tried it, and went back and forth for a while. i haven't used gnome much for the last 6 months, i find that while kde is less visually customizable, it seems to be more integrated than gnome+a wm of your choosing, and seems to be more stable. i also spend a lot less time downloading cool themes and playing with them, and more time working. just my 2c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message