On Monday 07 November 2005 11:26 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
Throwing my $.02 in - I have never been really happy with the whole KDE / Gnome thing. Gnome has always been - imo - ugly and not user-friendly, while at the same time being almost as resource-hungry as KDE. If I want to loose the eye-candy, I'll IceWM or Flux or...
The whole reason, IIRC, that Miguel decided to abandon KDE and write his own desktop was becasue of licencing - which is long since resolved. I remember firing up Gnome on my Mandrake 6.1 system and immediately going back to KDE.
That said, I just wish each distro would simply settle on one - or at least build wrappers - so that we could have a consistent look/feel. I absoltely hate using the dialog boxes in any GTK+ app - most horrible is that awful file open in GIMP.
I've used SuSE Linux since 5.1. At that time neither the KDE nor GNOME existed. I have never seen a GNOME install that I liked. That may be due, in part, to the fact that I know the KDE much better than the GNOME. But I suspect there is more to it than that. From what I've seen, the widgets like the file browser are simply inferior to what the KDE provides. The KDE is, in my mind, what now defines SuSE. For Novell to switch to GNOME would take away one of the most important aspects that makes SuSE great. I suspect this has something to do with Mono. They probably think they can achieve greater compatability with the Monopolistic software company's products that way. STH