[Gllug] Gnome Vs Kde Vs

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Wed Sep 1 07:40:15 UTC 2004


Nix wrote:
> Bloody UI theoreticians (with an emphasis on `lack of attention paid to
> the real world of active users but only on what theoretical New Users
> Who Have Never Heard Of Computers may do').

I think they fail to make the distinction between Ease-of-Use and 
Ease-of-Learning.  Engineering a system for the ignorant means it's 
almost bound to be frustrating and difficult for those who are 
experienced with it.

> I'm thinking of trying KDE; apparently it's more suitable for
> tweakaholics like me, and though I despise the default look of Qt, maybe
> there are nicer-looking themes than come in the Qt distribution.

KDE is good.  And you can make it look like whatever you want.

doug.

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