From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 5:45:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9940B37B41C for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 05:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:00:22 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 69A91BB39; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:00:10 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: GNOME vs KDE Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:00:10 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020331221607.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020331221607.F63569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020401040010.69A91BB39@i8k.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 Sunday 31 March 2002 10:17 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote: | I've noticed several posts referring to gnome, and very few to KDE. | | What are the relative differences of these two windows managers? KDE is great and Gnome is lame :-) No, seriously, it's mostly a matter of taste. KDE strives to be a complete but relatively simple and user-friendly desktop environment. It gives an environment which will not seem to far afield to those used to Microsoft Windows. Gnome is more "Unixy" in its conception; it is flexible to a fault, and it separates the desktop environment from the window manager more. Thus you can, for all practical purposes, run KDE *only* with its only window manager, but you can use the Gnome desktop with a number of different Window managers. Either is a big honkin' monster | My friends seem to prefer KDE. Your friends have good taste :-) Seriously, I had Windows, the operating system, but actually rather like Windows, the Windowing system. If you feel the same way you will almost certainly prefer KDE. If you like have a gazillion knobs to twist and thousands of skins and lots of fancy transparent effects and all that jazz, then Gnome is more likely to appeal. But frankly over time they are each adopting both the strenghts and weaknesses of the other -- KDE gets more complex; Ghome becomes tweakable to be very KDE-like . . . It's really a matter of taste. Try to find friends with each and see which you like. Or if you have no idea, run KDE. Why? Because most of your friends prefer it, so they are running it, so when you get stuck they'll be better at helping you if you run KDE. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message