From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 6 18: 7:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2D837B401 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mimerki@saintmail.net) Received: from saintmail.net (nicej-1.stu.rpi.edu [128.113.142.113]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5717OW47798 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:07:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1ED3A8.4BCFF129@saintmail.net> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:06:48 -0400 From: Marcia Barrett Nice X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome vs. KDE References: <20010604210604.5772.qmail@web11707.mail.yahoo.com> 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 I think the issue is not with the question (I believe) you intended to ask: Which is preferable, KDE or GNOME, and why? However "better" requires a judgment call and those people who prefer one to the other don't want to hear the other called "better." Hence do flamewars start. I prefer KDE. I tried GNOME and couldn't get it to work properly and gave up after about a month of trying. I think that if I could have gotten it to work I might have liked it. I don't know; it didn't work and so I don't like it. I even admit that it was probably my own fault. Other people like GNOME. I'll even bet non-newbies have educated opinions concerning stability, ease of use, etc. Marci Tim Erlin wrote: > > Alright, so let me turn it into an etiquette question > (seems appropriate for -newbies). As a newbie, my > resources for 'which is better' answers are pretty > limited. I suppose the 'try both' method is good, but > I'd like to draw on the experiences of those on this > list. I can understand avoiding asking this on > -questions, but it seems to me that this kind of > discussion is just right for -newbies. Or is it? > > --Tim > > --- "J.Goodleaf" wrote: > > I second David's take. Please, no long-running flame > > war over this. Both > > desktops are pretty solid nowadays. Unless you're a > > developer who has some > > stake in GTK or QT, you're best off using whichever > > feels better to you. > > > > That said, I'd like to encourage you to try xfce. > > It's not as nifty as Gnome > > or KDE (And there is nothing wrong with either of > > those; I'm adding another > > option!) but it is a little lighter on the system. > > It's all the GUI I've > > ever needed. Available in the ports tree... > > > > -John > > > > David Johnson writes: > > > > > Tim Erlin wrote: > > > > > >> Which is better, KDE or Gnome? Why do you think > > so? Is > > >> the answer 'neither?' > > > > > > Questions such as this are bound to start flame > > wars. You may not have > > > meant it as such, but in the future, try to avoid > > "which is better of > > > two highly popular choices" questions. > > > > > > I have a clear preference for one of them. But > > that is my own > > > preference. Neither one of these desktops is > > better than the other. Try > > > them both. Then use the one you like the best. > > Period. > > > > > > David > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of > > the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________ > > | J. Goodleaf > > | > > | > > | > > / ) | Technology > > Coordinator | > > / / | FreeBSD Advocate > > | > > ( ( | email ==> > > | > > ((( > |/ ) > > john@goodleaf.net | > > (\\ _/ > > /_________________________| > > / > > _/ > > / / > > / / > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of > > the message > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message