[Gllug] GNOME Disk Activity

[Sudhir Anand]

On Friday 13 December 2002 01:07, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:00, Sudhir Anand wrote:
> > I would be interested to know if the person concerned attended the
> > presentation.  Quite frankly, one of the aims of the presentation was to
> > compare it against KDE and in my opinion failed miserably.
>
> The presentation concerned GNOME 2, which is not the incarnation of
> GNOME that most people are running. It was more about new features that
> the GNOME 2 environment will offer than anything else, and in that
> regard, I thought it was well presented.
>

Agreed that the presentation referred to Gnome 2.  However, I thought the 
presentation did not address more strategic issues.

> I don't recall anything in the description or intent of the talk that
> would have made a comparison to KDE relevant. The speaker was a GNOME
> developer, and as such was well qualified to talk about GNOME.
> Comparisons between it and KDE are best left to end users, who've
> experienced both desktops as a user, first hand.
>

Accepted.  I was mentally comparing Gnome to KDE during the presentation.

> FWIW, I find both desktop environments get in my way. I enjoy running
> several of the GNOME apps (Evolution, Gnumeric, Gnucash, Abiword),
> whereas I don't habitually use any KDE apps. I still prefer a Window
> Manager, and an xterm as my desktop, but I never thought GNOME was
> siginificantly worse than KDE, and in the long term I think it's the
> desktop project that'll go further.
>

Which distro of Liux do you use?

Sudhir Anand
Andson

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