From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 24 18:21:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12CB737B405 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19737 invoked by uid 417); 25 Jun 2002 01:21:28 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 01:21:28 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.20.180]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:21:27 -0600 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:51 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "Grant Cooper" Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome2 Message-Id: <20020624211851.1620de40.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <00ad01c21bd0$56c08400$5a616bd1@ab.hsia.telus.net> References: <3D1722E1.1000706@72oot.net> <00ad01c21bd0$56c08400$5a616bd1@ab.hsia.telus.net> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:41:53 -0600 "Grant Cooper" wrote: > Gnome die, Kde rules, yeh yeh!!! Actually, is there a gereral view which is > better? KDE uses more resources, if you've got a slower computer, but has a fancier interface. GNOME programs have loads of varying dependencies (though thankfully BSD's port/package system makes this much simpler than RPM's dependency hell did) and a somewhat "unique" interface that I couldn't get used to. Actually, I'm using FVWM2 right now believe it or not. I originally got it because I wanted to run X Windows as soon as possible without waiting for KDE to download (I grabbed the mini-iso, which doesn't include X, via modem, tho don't call me a total freeloader because I have FreeBSD 4.2 Power Pak), but am starting to enjoy it although it's kind of spartan, old, and hard to configure. fvwm2's default theme in FreeBSD 4.6 is *nice* though. The default theme of fvwm2 in SuSE Linux really turned me off to it when I tried it last. The folks at FreeBSD configured it like it was a useful program instead of making a weird joke out of it. (Though if you like xeyes on full-time, more Win9x-like window decorations, and an uglier button bar you can make it that way if you want. ;-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message