[Gllug] What is the Gnome & KDE difference??

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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Tethys yowled:
> Religion, mostly. See emacs vs vi. Personally, I detested KDE because it
> was fat, bloated and slow. Plus, gtk+ was a dream to code in compared to
> Qt. But hey, after some years of playing catch up, GNOME is just as fat,
> bloated and slow, too. Possibly even edging ahead these days.

Well, these days GNOME is fat, bloated, slow, and intentionally
unconfigurable with extremely annoying defaults: you're paying for
customization under the hood that you can't access without massive pain,
if at all.

KDE is about as slow, rather less bloated (because there's much more
code reuse), and ludicrously configurable.

I know which I prefer. :)

> Like Mike, I use neither, but occasionally find need to use a GNOME or KDE
> app from within my X environment. That's when the unnecessary dependencies
> *really* start pissing me off...

KDE's deps really *are* necessary; the degree of code reuse in KDE is
huge. Some of GNOME's are necessary too (but I can't say how many).

If you prelink your system and export the KDE_IS_PRELINKED environment
variable, that ugly kdeinit crock will mostly go away as well :) (it's
still there, but doesn't do remotely as much work).

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