>>>>> "Felix" == Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Helgi> Of course it depends on who you ask.....:-) Generally I like Helgi> KDE because it is locical in so many ways, but I don't like how Helgi> big it is and therefore takes a lot of resources, and it's not Helgi> 'free'. Gnome is faster (for me) but I got problems with using Helgi> different Felix> kde 2.0 might well be faster than GNOME 1.2, because GNOME Felix> still uses CORBA for object embedding, while KDE uses DCOP, Felix> which "builds on inter- process communication". Thus, DCOP is Felix> more lightweight, but not fully network-aware (although network Felix> communcations will be possible by connecting the DCOP-servers). This is from someone who just half a year ago wouldn't leave text mode, so take it with a grain of salt. First, KDE _is_ totally free. The only problem with it, license-wise, is that it uses Qt, whose license, although _also_ free, is incompatible with GPL. I tried both KDE and Gnome; in fact I tried installing Gnome multiple times, and always came to the same conclusion (which is: I run KDE :). The problem I have with Gnome is a bit subtle, and not obvious to someone who's installing Linux or even a Linux GUI for the first time and deciding between what's out there. Namely, Gnome does not include its own window manager; KDE does. Gnome depends on hooks for Gnome support compiled into an external window manager, and at present the only window manager with full support for Gnome seems to be Enlightenment, AKA `E'. And E is a _HOG_. I mean, it's a hogggg. There seems to be no easy way to make it not use bitmap textures for everything imaginable on the screen, including caption bars and even menus. The results are predictable. With KDE, the entire Linux boot sequence is still much faster than Windoze; with Gnome and E, it's a toss-up :-( That's on a 32M/P160 machine, which doesn't strike me as minimalistic. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.
