In my somewhat limited experience the choice between kde and gnome depends entirely on the version of kde. A long time ago I settled on kde mostly because konqueror was a great file manager. I also found the task bar easy to manage.That's still the case for konqueror ver 3.5.9 with kde ver 3.5.10 running on my debian desk top.
But I find kde ver 4.4 on my kubuntu lap top to be quite poor. Konqueror has been emasculated. It's difficult to move/copy blocks of files, there is no longer an image view, the forward and back arrows don't work and there is no longer a "settings" menu. The task bar is also much less useful with kde 4.4: it's not possible to add icons, especially for non-kde applications Perhaps the practise of bringing out a new version of kubuntu every six months is a mistake. Robin Carter On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Gustin Johnson <gus...@echostar.ca> wrote: > : robert-william : lewko wrote: > > Guys, I just saw a comment on lwn.net. The author was talking about a > > function specific to okular (a KDE application) and one of the people > > posting a comment said "If KDE wants to survive in a GNOME world they > > better stop making fool decisions." > > > I wonder what he means by "fool decisions". I know that KDE got screwed > by Ubuntu when they dropped KDE 3.5 before 4 was ready to replace it. > Having said that I now use KDE 4.4 day to day. On my older machines it > is KDE 3.5. > > > What I wonder is this. Is Gnome the majority that this person > > commenting says it is? When I do an informal pole of the people I > > know who use Linux I probably have 5 friends who are solidly KDE, 1 > > that uses Gnome and sometimes uses KDE applications and 1 that uses > > Enlightenment and couldn't care less about having anything more > > elaborate. > > > > IE, is this person who has posted a comment to this article really > > based in reality? Is Gnome more popular? > > > I would say that Gnome is more popular these days. It is a shame that > KDE lost the momentum that it used to have, but from what I can see that > was largely the fault of various distributions pushing 4.x before it was > ready. > > I personally find Gnome awkward to use (I switched to it for a year) but > at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. They are both free and > open, and both projects are alive and progressing, which means that for > us things will only get better. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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