On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 01:59:00 +0200 Daniel González Gasull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep, I know. This is a old flame war. But I don't > want your personal opinions. What I want is some > links about comparisons between GNOME and KDE. Hope I'm not just being trolled... IMHO KDE is a little more stable at the moment, and all the parts seem to work together better. It's not exactly speedy, but it's not too bad. It has documentation for just about everything, and isn't too bad a way of hiding all the cli stuff of linux. The themes are pretty easy to install now too, and some of them are approaching the coolness of some e themes. GNOME, I think, looks much better, but it's still pretty slow and buggy. You have a little more choice of which WM to use, but it seems to look most impressive with e. You have lots of e and GTK themes, which can make the whole system look really amazing. But I think the best difference is that the GNOME panel is actually useful, whereas the KDE panel is pretty much just an app launcher. Many more GNOME apps will embed themselves in the panel and live there, providing useful (and useless) information. Few KDE apps seem to use the panel for anything more than a button to launch them. Debian GNOME (in slink at least) is prolly stable enuf for day-to-day use, but despite the versioning, GNOME really doesn't deserve to be 1.0x, more like 0.5, I would think (it's political, so I'm told). It's a lot more useable on debian than it was a few weeks ago tho. With a decent DM, there is no reason you can't have both on your system and change between them (WDM does this really well). Provided you have the disk space, i guess (yes, disk space is cheep, but some of us are still poor students. KDE 2.0 may change things a little - i don't really know how much. QT 2.0 looks like it will be as configurable as GTK, and they claim it wont be as slow (GTK with a pixmap theme is *very* slow!) Don't know how much more I can say. I started with KDE, then installed GNOME, and tend to swap between them. GNOME is more fun if you are a compulsive tweaker - but expect to break things. Both of them are much more bloated than a standalone WM like Afterstep. Neither of them look great at 800x600 (something about linux hackers is they always seem to have much bigger monitors (or better eyesight) than us mere mortals with 15in screens!). HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead"
