Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Jim <balihoo92@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have always preferred KDE myself, but it is purely up to you which one you 
use.

Jim

On Sunday 25 January 2004 15:53, Enrique Arizón wrote:
> Well, personally I preffer much more Gnome to KDE for
> a few reasons:
>
>  - I make daily use of Mozilla, Gaim, GnomeMeeting and
> Dia that basically are Gtk apps and so run better with
> Gnome than KDE.  I also spend many hours in front of
> the command line and I think the gnome terminal is
> much more polished than the KDE terminal and I work
> faster with it.
>
>  - I hate the Qt libraries and its license that, from
> my point of view is too much radical and could create
> long term problems since it does N_O_T allow for LGPL
> (Lesser General Public Licence). Since KDE is build
> with Qt I think it's a big problem.
>
>  - I don't like Konqueron since it doesn't run many
> JavaScript enabled pages, and so I can't use, for
> example, Yahoo mail popups menus. But Konqueron is
> everywhere within KDE and I can't disable it.
>
>  Anyway if you decide to use GNOME go to RedHat or
> Debian. They have a much more "correct" GNOME than the
> default included with SuSE (I don't know if the Ximian
> version of Gnome correct the mistakes). I hope this
> will change soon with Novell adquiring Ximian and
> SuSE.
>
>  --- Ged <ged.suse@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > Hi all,
>
> > I'm currently using KDE but need to change.
> > I don't know whether its just boredom of using the
> > same environment, or
> > whether its due to it not providing what I want. I
> > have been using it for
> > about 6 months, but I just can't seem to put my
> > finger on why I'm not happy
> > with it.
> >
> > I'm looking for advice on alternatives people use. I
> > have installed Gnome and
> > find it to be aesthetically pleasing, but can't make
> > judgement at present as
> > I only looked at if for 20 mins.
> >
> > One of my main gripes is Kmail. I have become use to
> > it and need an
> > alternative that will be as feature packed at that
> > was.
> >
> > Any suggestions are appricieted, bearing in mind I
> > have only converted to
> > Linux in the past 6 months.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ged.
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