On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 15:47, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org