Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 15:47, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's funny, but really, what cannot be done in Gnome? As someone who
> is considering moving to Gnome after nine years on KDE, what would I
> be missing?

The simple answer... nothing.  Gnome is a perfectly capable window
manager... as are pretty much all commonly used window managers in
Linux.

Each person's view of what's good/bad in Gnome is very much.. their
own view.  Personally I get frustrated with Gnome in some of the more
subtle things... like focus stealing... the openSUSE Gnome slab menu
thing... I really dislike how it works, especially once you want to
find apps that are not in the short list.  Another aspect is desktop
configuration... KDE has much finer grained control in the top level
Config window than Gnome does (although Gnome implements the changes
you make a lot smoother) - you can tweak Gnome at a level the borders
on insane though if you're willing to dive in deeper... into a tool
that makes the Windows Regedit look elegant :-(  I also don't like how
the file manager aspects work.. especially when called from within an
application.  There are other bits that I think are better in KDE..
like Dolphin... but.. this is all just how I view it.  A person who
finds Gnome to be "just right" will disagree with me on every point...
but that's OK :-)

As a window manager, it does the job just fine.  You'll find it works
as well as any other wm choice you have.

Best thing you can do.. install it.. try it.. if it feels right, use it.

C.
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