On 03/08/2010 14:43, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/02/2010 01:14 AM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
David,
That was pretty much my gut feeling too.
By default, does Gnome have the plain desktop like KDE 3 (in other words, not in a folder on the desktop like KDE 4)
Duaine
Yep,
Gnome has just a simple old kde3 type desktop.
When you go to Gnome for the first time, things will seem a little bit different at first. Just remember that gconf-editor is where all the detailed settings take place. Just google "gnome configure XYZ.." and you will find the gconf-editor setting you need to change.
Most all of your normal settings can be handled in the gnome control center, so from that standpoint there are no surprises. All of your normal appearance settings are available by rt-clicking on the desktop and then clicking "change desktop background". That brings up the dialog that controls the GTK Theme (controls, check boxes, etc.. settings), metacity theme settings (window borders/decorations), mouse cursor, etc... There are a whole lot of absolutely 'Killer' gtk/metacity themes out there for gnome.
All in all, while I was a true kde advocate all the way through kde3.5, I have absolutely fallen in love with Gnome as a desktop.
+1. To be very honest, I cannot ever go back to KDE. When I first tried a Linux distro years ago I couldn't 'stomach' gnome - just that great foot-print and the name turned me off. I stuck with KDE all the way - until just recently. Now I cannot understand what people see in KDE with all the plasmas and widgets and gidgets and "activities" and....and....whatever, not to mention the continual wrangling about KDE 3 and KDE4. I tried to upload screenshots of my gnome desktop for Duaine to see what one may look like but the sites I've been given to do this don't do credit to the snapshots, and I am not going to send Duaine 2 png files each 2.2MG big. BC -- If nothing happens, nothing can go wrong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org