On Tuesday 21 January 2003 13:46, Gedi wrote: [...]

I have always used KDE, but am now considering having a crack at Gnome or maybe something else dependant on the results from this post.

So, down to the question.....which desktop environment do you prefer and what are your reasons :)

Currently, I prefer KDE, because what SuSE provides is well integrated, has plenty of the apps that I use, as well as plenty of others for me to tinker-with/wonder-about. It also comes with KMail, which I favo[u]r as my e-mail program. As well, with the current version of KDE, Konq seems to be as useful and versatile as Nautilus, if not more-so. With that said, however, I must admit that GNOME continues to have, by far, the niftier set of screensavers. :-) I'm only just now getting over 2-1/2 months of crippling X-and-system crashes, so I may pay more attention to GNOME2, now. But my impression has been that KDE 3.x is a smoother desktop experience. Perhaps I would be saying just the reverse if I ran Red Hat, which puts more effort into GNOME-tweaking than KDE. Cheers, /kevin

<snip> How well do you like it when you run it in KDE, rather than in GNOME? <snip>

which prompted me to wonder which desktop environment people use/prefer.

I have always used KDE, but am now considering having a crack at Gnome or maybe something else dependant on the results from this post.

So, down to the question.....which desktop environment do you prefer and what are your reasons :)

Hmmm risking the Desktop wars eh? I prefer KDE because it presents things on the screen in a way that appeals to me. I also use Gnome from time to time but I don't like it's methods of presenting applications. That is a personal opinion.... and has very little to do with the technical merits of either window manager. Another argument for a particular window manager may be how it uses available resources. KDE is rather RAM hungry in my experience, but I have lots of RAM in my computer. If you are running a system that is a bit on the low side for resources you may be better off with Windowmaker. In my opinion, each window manager has it's merits, just like each mail tool. What you really need to do is try them out, and pick the one that suits the way your mind works... the one that appeals to your sense of what is right for a GUI. C.

So, down to the question.....which desktop environment do you prefer and what are your reasons :)

ssh :) Gnome2, definately. I used KDE2 in SuSE 7.3 and it just seemed sluggish (perhaps my own fault due to misconfiguration). I did a clean install of 8.1 and tried both Gnome2 and KDE3. Gnome2 was much faster and not as flashy (which appeals to me). Gnome2 was even faster when I removed all of KDE3 from my system (kdeinit was being launched when running Gnome until this). I have nothing against KDE, my system simply responds better to Gnome2. Good excuse for a hardware upgrade... Josh

In a previous message, Gedi wrote:

So, down to the question.....which desktop environment do you prefer and what are your reasons :)

Gnome2 I've tried KDE2 and 3, Ice, Enlightenment and others. I settled for Gnome2 because it is integrated well, takes what I find to be an intuitive approach to things and has (for me) the superior set of applications. I dislike KDE because (IMO) it takes too much of the Windows way of doing things. Gnome, by contrast, even though it looks very similar, feels very different in operation. The problem answering this question is that this is very much down to personal taste. Most environments do a good job and enable the user to do what they need. Which you prefer depends on the apps you use and the "style" of the environment. And this is one of the Good Things about *nix - you aren't stuck working in a way that is alien to you. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 1:46 pm, Gedi wrote:

So, down to the question.....which desktop environment do you prefer and what are your reasons :)

For me, it depends. I do all of home stuff on KDE. At work, I use VNC extensively and really like using Blackbox in VNC. For my old slow machines with small amounts of memory (P90 with 32-64 MB of memory), I like icewm since its default theme comes up better than Blackbox on my old cruddy video cards, and I don't want to fuss with it (much). I would encourage you to try several different ones and see for yourself ! Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org