I looked at GNOME just after v1.0 came out. It fell about all over the place. Back to KDE. I friend of mine recently bought a copy of RHL6.1 which installed a much later GNOME. This one survived about 10 minutes before locking up. At my suggestion he went away and got a copy of SuSE-6.3 and installed KDE. GNOME is prettier than KDE, although KDE-2.0 is arguably prettier than either. But the guys doing GNOME don't seem too interested in *finishing* it. They seem keen on getting more and more complex features in, and making it more and more flashy to look at, but stability is not their main concern. The KDE guys seems much more interested in average users, so they focus on stability and useability. I doubt if either project will die, and that's a good thing. We have a choice, we have competition. Total compatibility between the two isn't likely to happen, such are the differences in politics and philosophies between the groups, and that is a shame.

Do any of y'all have opinions as to the relationship and future of GNOME and the KDE? I have run into a few very nice GNOME tools lately. I have been using the KDE since it was in alpha. I do like it. I haven't spent a lot of time on GNOME, but it is looking more attractive these days. Is this forking? Do we get hybrid vigor or just a zero sum game where one rises to prominence and the other goes the way of the beta video tape format?

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Hi, On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

Do any of y'all have opinions as to the relationship and future of GNOME and the KDE? I have run into a few very nice GNOME tools lately. I have been using the KDE since it was in alpha. I do like it. I haven't spent a lot of time on GNOME, but it is looking more attractive these days. Is this forking? Do we get hybrid vigor or just a zero sum game where one rises to prominence and the other goes the way of the beta video tape format?

I for myself use the best of both worlds. I run neither KDE or GNOME _full_ (like the panel or file manager), but I use apps from both sides (which fits better for the specific purpose).

Where's Michael Lankton when you need him?

Ah Michael - yes, he is missed. AFAIK he is using Debian now. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/