Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 28, 2003 01:13 AM
Well, only geeks like you like ugly desktops like rox, icewm,xcfe, ion, etc. The common people like pretty desktops easy to use, like KDE or Gnome. Sure, it can do what *you* need it to do, but as it sounds you are a freaking geek, you donīt care about such things like "all those nice icons and fluffy colors", but I have a notice for you, MOST OF COMPUTER USERS ARENīT GEEKS LIKE YOU, they want to do things as easy as possible, like KDE or Gnome does for them. So please, look around you, get out of your geek hole and look at real life.
As wich one of KDE or Gnome is better, both are excellent desktops, but I have to admit that KDE is prettier and has a better design arquitechture than Gnome. To not have to install 10 extra libraries to compile for example MrProject (nice app!!)itīs a very clear example of why KDE itīs a better development enviroment than Gnome. About Gnomeīs usability, I canīt tell, I have used very little Gnome, I can only tell you that GTK is ugly. I also donīt know if Gnomeīs file manager is better than konqueror, but I can tell you that konqueror itīs a great file manager AND internet browser.
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Re:Not A lot of Point Really - Lock in to Ximian?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 28, 2003 01:13 AMAs wich one of KDE or Gnome is better, both are excellent desktops, but I have to admit that KDE is prettier and has a better design arquitechture than Gnome. To not have to install 10 extra libraries to compile for example MrProject (nice app!!)itīs a very clear example of why KDE itīs a better development enviroment than Gnome. About Gnomeīs usability, I canīt tell, I have used very little Gnome, I can only tell you that GTK is ugly. I also donīt know if Gnomeīs file manager is better than konqueror, but I can tell you that konqueror itīs a great file manager AND internet browser.
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