[CS-FSLUG] KDE vs. GNOME (was Re: Senator Obam)

[David McGlone]

On Friday 17 October 2008 5:36:38 pm Timothy Butler wrote:
> > Why the switch? I've been considering giving gnome another look
> > lately,
> > because I hear so much about how clean cut it is. What I mean by
> > that is
> > sometimes KDE just seems cluttered and everything just strewn about
> > in the
> > Kmenu. I've been using KDE for well over 14 years and still can never
> > remember where to look in kmenu for some things. What I don't
> > understand is
> > why have the "utilities", "system" and "settings" menu items when
> > all 3 of
> > them are almost exactly the same generally. If you really think
> > about it, all
> > the apps in each menu would easily fit in the other.

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I just got done yesterday with a 2 day test run of Gnome. Aaaaack! it was hard 
to do but I forced myself.

Overall it's not a bad desktop, but it's surly not for me. I may not have 
stuck with it long enough to form a solid opinion, but my first impressions 
was that is was a little too "dumbed" down. Totem is nice, the youtube plugin 
was cool, but I felt it was way behind Kaffeine in terms of usability for 
advanced users. Evolution was cool, but I seen no reason to switch from 
Kontact. F-Spot photo, I believe was also nice and I liked the tagging 
feature, but still wasn't enough to get me to switch from digikam, which 
works with my digital camera unlike F-Spot.

> 	I know KDE is trying to clean things up, but I still think they lack
> discipline. FOSS is great for a lot of things, but the bazaar
> technique is much better at building servers and underpinnings than
> GUIs. GNOME (and, Firefox, I might add) have at least a top layer of
> "cathedral builders" to present a public face to the project and
> provide a vision that drives the project.

Last night I purged gnome and installed kde4. I'm shocked. It's clean and 
sleek and seems really stable so far my only complaint is it uses 
network-manager-kde to manage networks but network-manager-kde is broken, and 
what puzzles me the most is, it hasn't been fixed yet. I figured it should be 
fixed by now since it's something so simple. (probably 5 minutes of time) I 
could probably hack it up to work properly, but the average user or newbie 
wouldn't be able to do that, so that's a drawback.

-- 
David M.
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