Vote for XFce

[Kristian Rink]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:

> found any fundamental difference between KDE and GNOME.  The
> differences are all cosmetic or buried deep in the code so that a
> user would never see it.  I honestly can't see any functional or
> user based difference.  Oh well, maybe it's just me...

Hmmm, besides all aspects of performance, I think both systems are
having some ideas inside which are basically good, i.e. the
kioslaves and the dcop stuff in KDE or gnome-vfs and bonobo in
GNOME. Anyhow, I guess in the end it all comes down to a special
users needs - does someone want a highly integrated desktop
environment with all the bells, whistles, troubles and bugs this
might include, or does someone just need to have a basic graphical
user environment in X for using some programs that _do_ need X (at
least I never thought about whether or not there is a command-line
interface to control the GiMP ;)) and, besides that, for just using
several [a|e|x|k|gnome]terms on X. In the latter case, I guess using
KDE or GNOME is the least best decision someone can take.

Btw I think that the GNOME folks did a huge step _backward_ in
development by including nautilus into 1.4 . Actually, even mozilla
and openoffice are performing better on my machine than this sad
excuse for a file manager...

Cheers,
Kris


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